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The Coronation of the Virgin, reverse: Christ Carrying the Cross (fragment of an altar wing), Nuremberg Master ca. 1350/60
Nuremberg Master ca. 1350/60
The Coronation of the Virgin, reverse: Christ Carrying the Cross (fragment of an altar wing)
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Nürnberger Meister um 1350/60: Der hl. Klara erscheint das Christuskind in einer Hostie (Innenseite); Kreuztragender Christus (untere Hälfte), Privatbesitz, Schottland

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Nürnberger Meister um 1350/60: Johannes der Täufer und Johannes der Evangelist (Innenseite); obere Hälfte einer dreifigurigen Kreuzigung, ehem. Sammlung Konsul Harry Fuld, Frankfurt und Berlin, Verbleib unbekannt

Nuremberg Master ca. 1350/60

The Coronation of the Virgin, reverse: Christ Carrying the Cross (fragment of an altar wing), ca. 1350 – 1360

Dimensions
35.2 x 25.1 x min. 1.2 cm
maximum depth
1.2 cm
Physical Description
Mixed technique on oak
Inventory Number
SG 443
Acquisition
Acquired in 1928
Status
On display, 2nd upper level, Old Masters, room 3

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This panel fragment presumably came from a convent of the Poor Clares in Nuremberg. It is typical testimony to late fourteenth-century female mysticism. The front features ‘The Coronation of the Virgin’. The banderoles quote the ‘Song of Solomon’ and characterise Mary as Christ’s bride, a symbol of the church and a loving soul – a quality with which particularly women could identify. The back shows the extant upper section of a cross-bearing Christ as a kind of instruction in vicarious suffering. The panel was part of a tabernacle altarpiece whose wings flanked a central sculpture.

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15.11.2024