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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR64.5
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Saint John Evangelist
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1490-1500
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223040

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood
Dimensions
126.68 cm (49 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Transfer from the Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
BR64.5
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. 16, cat. no. 16 pp. 59-60, repr. as pls. XIV and XV
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 14, repr. p. 35 as fig. 38
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 101, repr. pp. 100-101
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 348, p. 295, repr.
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 162 p. 201, repr.
  • Julien Chapuis, Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 1999), p. 157 [in: Timeline of Selected North American Acquisitions of German Late Gothic Sculpture]

Verification Level

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