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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR41.35
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Education of the Virgin
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1510-1520
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, South Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225619

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Polychromed lindenwood
Technique
Painted
Dimensions
83.8 x 45 x 43 cm (33 x 17 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg commemorating the 70th birthday of her husband
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
BR41.35
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. 8, 18, cat. no. 25 p. 69-70, repr. as pls. XXII and XXIII
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), repr. p. 43 as fig. 57
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 94, repr. pp. 94-95
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 169 p. 209-210, repr.
  • Julien Chapuis, Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 1999), p. 153 [in: Timeline of Selected North American Acquisitions of German Late Gothic Sculpture]

Verification Level

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