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Summary of Matthias Grünewald. Grünewald is one of the most important artists in the history of Northern Renaissance Art, and one of the greatest of all German religious painters. Ignoring for the most part the rise of Renaissance classicism (unlike his famous contemporary Albrecht Dürer), Grünewald favored the irrational and mystical ...
Jul 27, 2002 · The Crucifixion. 1515 (140 Kb); Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood 269 x 307 cm (105 7/8 x 120 7/8 in); Musee d'Unterlinden, Colmar. Art for him did not consist in the search for the hidden laws of beauty - for him it could have only one aim, the aim of all religious art in the Middle Ages - that of providing a sermon in pictures ...
Jan 4, 2017 · Matthias Grünewald (ca. 1480–1528) painted the Crucifixion as a panel for the Isenheim Altarpiece in the hospital chapel of St. Anthony’s monastery. The monastery hospital specialized in the treatment of ergotism, an especially painful skin disease. The Christ figure in the painting is depicted as suffering from these same sores—a sign ...
Isenheim Altarpiece. The Isenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece sculpted and painted by, respectively, the Germans Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald in 1512–1516. [1] It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, in France. It is Grünewald's largest work and is regarded as his masterpiece.
Jun 24, 2024 · German Renaissance, Religious art, and altarpieces. Matthias Grünewald stands out as one of the most compelling figures of the German Renaissance era. Born around 1470 and passing in 1528, he created some of the most intense and expressive religious artwork of his time. Grünewald’s work is marked by his vivid use of color and agitated lines ...
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- August 31, 1528
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- Würzburg, Germany
Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (second position) c. 1512–16, oil and tempera on limewood panels, 376 x 668 cm (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The second position emphasizes this promise of resurrection. Its panels depict the Annunciation, the Virgin and Child with a host of musical angels ...
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1961.9.19. Matthias Grünewald may have found inspiration to paint The Small Crucifixion in the total solar eclipse of October 1, 1502. The Gospels have associated the eclipse with the Crucifixion, and it has thus become symbolic with the despair surrounding Christ’s sacrifice. Grünewald’s affiliation with Christian mysticism often ...
