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Circle of Tilman Riemenschneider (Heiligenstadt im Eichsfeld c. 1460 - 1531 Würzburg) Germany, Franconia, first quarter 16th century
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description
- three reliefs of the twelve apostles
- limewood
- Circle of Tilman Riemenschneider (Heiligenstadt im Eichsfeld c. 1460 - 1531 Würzburg) Germany, Franconia, first quarter 16th century
probably originally an antependium, on a pinewood back, now divided in three panels, the tracery frameworks later
Provenance
Christie's London, 14 December 1999, lot 48
Catalogue Note
The solemn expressions and distinctive facial features, including the shape of the eyes accented by fine lines, the pursed lips and the pinched noses with long bridges, and the tightly curled locks of hair, recall the faces of the apostles from the Last Supper on the Altar of the Holy Blood in St. Jacobskircke, Rothenberg, 1499-1505 by the master sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider and his workshop (Kalden-Rosenfeld, op. cit., figs. 87 and 88).
RELATED LITERATURE
I. Kalden-Rosenfeld, Tilman Riemenschneider und seine Werkstatt..., Königstein,2001
J. Chapuis, Tilman Riemenschneider: master sculptor of the late Middle Ages, exh. cat., National Gallery, Washington, New Haven, 2004