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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.306.A-G
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Carved Altarpiece with Madonna and Child in Glory, St. Erasmus, St. Catherine; the Twelve Apostles; St. Anthony, St. Anne with Madonna and Child, St. Vitus, St. Margaret, St. Sebastian
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Triptych of the Madonna in Glory
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1524
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Lower Saxony
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/184369

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Polychromed wood (possibly lindenwood), oak
Dimensions
236 x 288.7 x 37.8 cm (92 15/16 x 113 11/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Anonymous gift
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
BR49.306.A-G
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 15, cat. no. 30 pp. 75-76, repr. as pl. XXX
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), repr. p. 51 as fig. 77
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 152 pp. 190-191, repr.
  • Julien Chapuis, Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 1999), p. 154 [in: Timeline of Selected North American Acquisitions of German Late Gothic Sculpture]
  • Michele D. Marincola and Lucretia Kargère, The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Sculpture: History, Theory, Practice, Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles, 2020), p. 239 note 5

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