The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Mater Dolorosa

The Mater Dolorosa

Artist:: Lautenbach Master (German, active late 15th century)
Date:: ca. 1480
Geography:: Made in Swabia, Germany
Culture:: South German
Medium:: Pot-metal glass and colorless glass, silver stain, and vitreous paint
Dimensions:: 19 5/8 x 16 3/8 in. (49.8 x 41.6 cm)
Classification:: Glass-Stained
Credit Line:: The Cloisters Collection, 1998
Accession Number:: 1998.215.2

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 019

Description

The Virgin stands within a lush network of leafy branches (Astwerk), a translation of architectural canopies and tracery to a vegetal vocabulary. Peter Hemmel and a group of stained-glass painters known as the Strasbourg Workshop Cooperative were among the most innovative artists of the late fifteenth century and executed glazing programs throughout southern Germany.
Provenance

From the library, subsequently chapterhouse, of the cathedral of Constance

Bodmer family (1912-1997) ; [ Gallery Barbara Giesicke , Badenweiler, Germany (sold 1998)]
See also
Who
Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (called the Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft) (3)

Lautenbach Master (2)
What
Metal (59,369)

Glass (16,037)

Silver (14,057)

Panels (2,843)

Stained glass (920)
Where
Europe (148,590)

Germany (15,867)

Swabia (21)
When
A.D. 1400-1600 (20,548)
In the Museum
The Cloisters (2,300)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Central Europe (including Germany), 1400–1600 A.D.
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