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Germany
Hans Backoffen (workshop of)
The Virgin Mary (c. 1510)
polychromed limewood
133.0 × 40.1 × 25.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1941
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The Virgin Mary
(c. 1510)
Medium
polychromed limewood
Measurements
133.0 × 40.1 × 25.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1941
Gallery location
14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts
Level 1, NGV International
About this work
This sculpture, and the figure of St John the Evangelist displayed to the right, both come from a church in the town of Karlstadt-am-Main in south-western Germany, where they were set up on the exterior wall beneath an image of the Crucified Christ. Made of limewood, a soft fine-grained timber that enables the carver to work in great detail, they still show minute traces of the bright polychrome paints that would originally have covered them entirely.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Germany
Accession Number
4792-D3
Department
International Sculpture
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