The Master of Zweder van Culemborg (sometimes referred to as Master Pancracius) was a North Netherlandish painter of illuminated manuscripts active in the Place around Utrecht amid 1420 and 1440. His namepiece is a canon page in a Missal depicting a bishop worshipping the crucified Christ. According to a coat of arms in the affix of the painting, the religious is Zweder van Culemborg, nominated to the town’s bishopric in 1423; he was, however, unable to accept his perspective until 1425. In 1431 he left for the Council of Basle; he died there two years later.
The Missal was maybe painted soon after the taking over of the extra bishop. It contains sixteen initials, thirteen of which are believed to be by the Master. He did not, however, paint the canon page from which his broadcast is derived. At least five additional works, illuminated in gather together or in share by the Master, survive; four are in the library in Utrecht, while one is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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