Hungarian, Austrian and German collection » Painting and Sculpture (12-16. century)
Fragment of a statue of a female saint (presumably Mary of Sorrows)
Perhaps fragments from a former Crucifixion scene
Artist
Workshop in Szepes County (follower of Pál Lőcsei)
Origin date
around 1500
Material
linden
Technique
aranyozott
Sizes
magasság: 50 cm
szélesség: 24 cm
mélység: 10 cm
szélesség: 24 cm
mélység: 10 cm
Inventory No.
56.843
Description and further information
50 x 24 x 10 cm
This sawed fragment of a wooden statue of a female saint, presumably Mary of Sorrows, seen from the knees up is the companion to the similarly truncated depiction of St. John the Evangelist (56.846).
Provenance
Ipolyi collection. ‘185. Mary depicted from the knees up (cut). High relief made of wood, worn gilding. Early 16th c.’ (Lakatos-Balla 279)
Bibliography
- Lakatos-Balla Attila: Ipolyi Arnold püspök hagyatéka Nagyváradon. Miscellanea Historica Varadinensia III. Nagyvárad 2012 279
- Radocsay D.: A középkori Magyarország faszobrai, Budapest, 1967, 174.
- Magyarország műemléki topográfiája I. Esztergom 1. Esztergom műemlékei (összeállította: Genthon István; Budapest 1948), 151.
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