Resumen de Ancora sul maestro del Capitolo di Pomposa
Returning to an essay Miklós Boskovits wrote in 1990 about the pictorial decoration of chapter houses, the author re-examines the frescoes in the chapter house at the Abbey of Pomposa, confirming their close dependence on those painted at the beginning of the 1300s by Giotto in the convent of the Santo in Padua. Reconsidering that the 'Maestro del Capitolo di Pomposa' may be the author of the "Virgin and Child" (thus attributed by Boskovits) once in the Lehman collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a small "Maestà and Saints" in a private collection, evidently by the same hand (although believed by Luciano Bellosi to be by a Florentine Giottesque painter), he raises the possibility that the Pomposa master may be identified as a "magister Cheyus de Florentia" recorded in 1317 as a witness to a document drawn up in the chapter house at Pomposa. After having travelled with Giotto to Padua and having worked independently at Pomposa, this artist could have returned to Florence during the 1320s, thus justifying the stylistic evolution, based on Giotto's subsequent work, that we see in the small "Maestà and Saints".
