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Freiburg Altarpiece

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Freiburg Altarpiece
ArtistHans Baldung Grien
Year1516
Mediumoil on wood panel
LocationFreiburg Minster, Freiburg im Breisgau

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]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Smarthistory – Hans Baldung Grien, Freiburg Altarpiece". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
  2. ^ "Der Hochaltar". Münsterfabrikfonds (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-03.

References

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  • 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.