page_title: Isaac Master (painter)
section_title: Who Is The Master?
hierarchical_section_title: Isaac Master (painter) / Who Is The Master?
caption_attribution_description: Scenes from the Old Testament
context_page_description: The Isaac Master was an Italian Gothic painter active in the decoration of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi at the end of the thirteenth century.
context_section_description: Much discussion has been held as to who is the Master. Some speculate that he was Gaddo di Zanobi Gaddi (due to similarity with Gaddi's work in Rome and Florence), while others say Pietro Cavallini or Giotto.
  Whomever, the Master seems to have been familiar with the Roman artists Filippo Rusuti and Jacopo Torriti, as well as with the work of Cimabue from Florence. He anticipates, by about a decade, some of the advances made by Giotto in his work; for this reason he is considered to be a central figure in the so-called "Giotto Question".
caption: Scenes from the Old Testament - Isaac Rejecting Esau
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