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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: A Gothic relief with the Adoration of the Magi: a discovered model of some Gothic copies
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this copy. A new light is thrown upon this unresolved problem by the fact of the execution of the
second copy of this scenę in cartapesta (in J. Bohler Collection)65 and of the third one in stucco
(Berlin Museum)66.
The delicacy of expression, the clearness of the composition, the type of the figures of the
Virgin, St Joseph and the adoring Angels assimilate this relief to the Amsterdam Nativity67.
The carver of this group, executed probably in Alsace ca 1470—80 could have known also the
main altar in the Carthusian Church in Strasbourg. In the compartment with the scenę of the Ado-
ration of the Magi we might notice similarities with the Warsaw relief, moreover, the close links
with the Frankfort relief can be proved, too.
One notices an important common principle of the composition in these reliefs: the situation
of the group on the foreground against the piling up landscape with the line of the horizon maiked
high up, also the stable covered with the saddle roof which is placed on the right. The repro-
duction of this relief in the catalogue shows the similarity of the figurę of St Joseph in both
reliefs — the garment, the face and the gesture of the raised hand touching the cap are obviously
similar.
65. Schmitt, Oberrheinische Plastik, op. cii., p. 26, pl. 29a.
66. Demmler, Grossphstik, op. cii., Inv. No 7983. p. 109—110: acquircd in 1921 in Italy; 30x24 cm, Uppcr Rhineland, the
2 nd half on the XVth century. The original (probably a wooden relief) is !<ipt, the copy was piobably exccuted in Italy.
67. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum; Spatgotik am Oberrhein, op. cii., No 67, fig. 62, pl. II.
9. The Virgin with the Child, Colmar, Lnterlindenmuseum
(after Hessig, Die Kunst des Meisters E.S.)
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second copy of this scenę in cartapesta (in J. Bohler Collection)65 and of the third one in stucco
(Berlin Museum)66.
The delicacy of expression, the clearness of the composition, the type of the figures of the
Virgin, St Joseph and the adoring Angels assimilate this relief to the Amsterdam Nativity67.
The carver of this group, executed probably in Alsace ca 1470—80 could have known also the
main altar in the Carthusian Church in Strasbourg. In the compartment with the scenę of the Ado-
ration of the Magi we might notice similarities with the Warsaw relief, moreover, the close links
with the Frankfort relief can be proved, too.
One notices an important common principle of the composition in these reliefs: the situation
of the group on the foreground against the piling up landscape with the line of the horizon maiked
high up, also the stable covered with the saddle roof which is placed on the right. The repro-
duction of this relief in the catalogue shows the similarity of the figurę of St Joseph in both
reliefs — the garment, the face and the gesture of the raised hand touching the cap are obviously
similar.
65. Schmitt, Oberrheinische Plastik, op. cii., p. 26, pl. 29a.
66. Demmler, Grossphstik, op. cii., Inv. No 7983. p. 109—110: acquircd in 1921 in Italy; 30x24 cm, Uppcr Rhineland, the
2 nd half on the XVth century. The original (probably a wooden relief) is !<ipt, the copy was piobably exccuted in Italy.
67. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum; Spatgotik am Oberrhein, op. cii., No 67, fig. 62, pl. II.
9. The Virgin with the Child, Colmar, Lnterlindenmuseum
(after Hessig, Die Kunst des Meisters E.S.)
81