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Source Description
The grouping of the Virgin's mother, Saint Anne, with the Virgin and the Christ Child emphasized the role of christ's extended family is known as the Holy Kinship and was especially popular in germany and the Netherlands in the late 1400s and early 1500s,Much of the wood sculpture of the time was intended to be painted. The great German sculptor Riemenschneider was the first to experiment seriously with leaving the wood unpainted, thereby emphasizing the play of volumes more than surface decoration. While the primary figure of St. Anne conveys the disnity and sense of form associated with riemenschneider, the small figures of the Christ Child and also the Virgindemonstrate much less skill in carving and appear to be the work of the master's workshop.
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Document identity
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27077
label
The Holy Kinship (St. Anne, the Virgin, and the Christ Child)
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obj
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sculpture
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Source metadata
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27077
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sculpture
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normalized
title
The Holy Kinship (St. Anne, the Virgin, and the Christ Child)
description
The grouping of the Virgin's mother, Saint Anne, with the Virgin and the Christ Child emphasized the role of christ's extended family is known as the Holy Kinship and was especially popular in germany and the Netherlands in the late 1400s and early 1500s,Much of the wood sculpture of the time was intended to be painted. The great German sculptor Riemenschneider was the first to experiment seriously with leaving the wood unpainted, thereby emphasizing the play of volumes more than surface decoration. While the primary figure of St. Anne conveys the disnity and sense of form associated with riemenschneider, the small figures of the Christ Child and also the Virgindemonstrate much less skill in carving and appear to be the work of the master's workshop.
provenance
Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1510 (Renaissance)
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CC0
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en
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Sculpture
sculpture (visual works)
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4
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4
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
100
height
33
depth
20.5
dimensionsRaw
39 3/8 x 13 x 8 1/16 in. (100 x 33 x 20.5 cm)
style
late Gothic
Source extras
med
wood (linden)
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3795
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REN
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none
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