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During a career spanning four decades, Tilman Riemenschneider produced numerous groups of the Virgin and Child, a prevalent cult image in the Catholic Church. Riemenschneider often took into consideration the intended installation when embarking on a new sculpture. The figure’s elongated thighs suggest that it was conceived to be seen from a ...
Virgin and Child. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, 1460–1531) German. Medieval (Gothic) about 1490–95. Object Place: Europe, Wurzburg, Germany. Medium/Technique Limewood. Dimensions 120.7 x 38.1 x 20.2 cm (47 1/2 x 15 x 7 15/16 in.) Credit Line Gift in memory of Felix M. Warburg by his wife Frieda Schiff Warburg.
This sculpture was probably originally polychromed and gilded, but during the 1490s Riemenschneider experimented with monochromatic, unpainted lindenwood, creating an effect much like this Madonna. The way the Virgin grasps the child’s foot is an unusual detail found on several sculptures from Riemenschneider’s workshop.
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Tilman Riemenschneider: 7 works. A slideshow of artworks auto-selected from multiple collections. By Google Arts & Culture. Virgin and Child on the Crescent Moon Virgin and Child on the Crescent Moon by Tilman Riemenschneider Spencer Museum of Art. 'Among the most significant of the limewood sculptors of Renaissance Germany, Riemenschneider was ...
Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilman Riemenschneider ( c. 1460 – 7 July 1531) was a German sculptor and woodcarver active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between the Late Gothic, to which he essentially belonged, and Northern Renaissance art, a master in stone and limewood.
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Tilman Riemenschneider ran the largest sculpture workshop of his time, where with the help of over forty apprentices he fulfilled countless commissions. Not only were his works admired, but in time he was also elected a member of the town council of Würzburg.
The introspective, almost elegiac, quality of Riemenschneider's work, on the other hand, can be drawn from Michel Erhart (ca. 1440–1522) of Ulm, and from Ulm sculpture in general, as exemplified by the countenance and pose of Erhart's tender and pensive Seated Virgin and Child, from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulturensammlung ...
