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St. Mary Magdalene

St. Mary Magdalene

Artist/Maker (German, active 1450s)
Dateca. 1450
MediumOil on linen affixed to panel (spruce?)
DimensionsOverall: 19 7/8 × 15 5/16 in. (50.5 × 38.9 cm)
Frame: 26 3/4 × 22 × 2 11/16 in. (67.9 × 55.9 × 6.8 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1941.75
Status
Not on view
More Information
The Master of the Sterzing Altarpiece was the foremost painter in Ulm, Germany during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The master's artistic identity is based on two painted altarpiece wings representing scenes from the life of Mary and the Passion of Christ, dating from about 1456. Two principal traits of the artist - the delineated, monumental forms and realistic sense of space - may be tied to contemporary Netherlandish painting. This panel has probably been reduced in size, and was originally incorporated into a larger composition, or as one of two half-length figures forming the extreme upper right or left panels of an opened altarpiece.
Exhibition History
A Selection of Paintings by the Old Masters
  • Richard Ederheimer Studio, New York ( 1936 - 1936 )
Early German Paintings
  • Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York ( 1939 - 1939 )
Early German Art
  • Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York (February 12, 1936 - March 13, 1936 )
An Exhibition of European Art 1450-1500
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (May 8, 1936 - June 8, 1936 )
German Paintings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Lent from American Collections
  • Germanic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (June 5, 1936 - September 30, 1936 )
Paintings of Women from the 15th to the 20th Century
  • Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (October 14, 1938 - November 14, 1938 )
German Painting of the Fifteenth Century
  • Durlacher Bros., New York (March 10, 1947 - March 29, 1947 )
Paintings from College and University Collections
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 20, 1953 - February 15, 1953 )
Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (February 3, 1954 - February 21, 1954 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
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