Lübeck, Kunsthalle St. Annen
Inv. 85
Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Judas receiving the reward. Buffeting of Christ; head of Christ covered by a cloth. Flagellation. Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin and Holy Women helping Christ. Crucifixion; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar. Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; one of the Holy Women holding Christ's other hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body). Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep.
Museum's opinion 2011: German or French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: green, red, gold.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Comments
Square opening on one side closed with a piece of carved ivory. The function of this feature has not yet been identified.
Provenance
From Lübeck, St Annen-Museum.
Bibliography
H. Wentzel, Lübecker Plastik bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1938), no. 60.
J. Wittstock, Kirchliche Kunst des Mittelalters und der Reformationszeit, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum, 1981, no. 276 (with ill. on p. 282).
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