The Freiburg Altarpiece is an oil on wood panel altarpiece, created for the high altar of Frieburg Minster by the German Renaissance painter and printmaker, Hans Baldung Grien.[1][2] The altarpiece is a polyptych with eleven panels created by Baldung and members of his studio. The painting is notable because it contains a self-portrait of the artist, as well as Baldung's monogram and signature.[1]
| Freiburg Altarpiece | |
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| Artist | Hans Baldung Grien |
| Year | 1516 |
| Medium | oil on wood panel |
| Location | Freiburg Minster, Freiburg im Breisgau |
Notes
edit- ^ a b "Smarthistory – Hans Baldung Grien, Freiburg Altarpiece". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
- ^ "Der Hochaltar". Münsterfabrikfonds (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-03.
References
edit- James H. Marrow and Alan Shestack, Hans Baldung Grien, prints & drawings, exhibition catalogue (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981).
- Bonnie Noble, “The Weird Sisters of Hans Baldung Grien,” Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver, edited by Debra Cashion, Henry Luttikhuizen, and Ashley West (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 269–83.
- Bonnie Noble, “The Kind of Virgin That Keeps a Parrot: Identity, Nature, and Myth in a Painting by Hans Baldung Grien,” Journal of Literature and Art, volume 4 number 9 (September 2014), pp. 702–21.
- James Snyder, Larry Silver, and Henry Luttikhuizen, Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575, 2nd edition (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2005), pp. 362–67.