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Triptych with The Lamentation of Christ (center), St. Barbara (left wing), St. Catherine of Alexandria (right wing), The Annunciation (reverse wings)

c. 1500

Master of the Krainburg Altar

(Austrian, active c. 1485–1510)
Culture
Austria
Medium
Center: oil on poplar; Wings: oil and gold leaf on poplar panel
Measurements
Center: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.); Wings: 51 x 15.9 cm (20 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2022.86
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Location
111 German and Austrian Gothic
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The Master of Krainburg was active in the area of today's Slovenia and should therefore be called the Master of Kranj in Slovenian.

Description

The triptych shows an exact representation of Jerusalem. The model is a woodcut by Erhard Reuwich for the publication Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, by Bernhard von Breydenbach, published in Mainz in 1486. This book became a bestseller, reprinted thirteen times over the next three decades. The painter who was active in today’s Slovenia around 1500 adapted this for his depiction of the Lamentation of Christ.
A horizontally oriented oil and gold leaf triptych depicts, in the central panel, a blue-and-white dressed woman cradling a pale man beneath a large cross. Flanking them, figures kneel in red and green before a distant city. Side panels feature standing women with light skin tones against patterned gold backgrounds. One woman holds a stone tower on the left, and the other holds a sword on the right.

Triptych with The Lamentation of Christ (center), St. Barbara (left wing), St. Catherine of Alexandria (right wing), The Annunciation (reverse wings)

c. 1500

Master of the Krainburg Altar

(Austrian, active c. 1485–1510)
Austria

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