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Man of Sorrows

ca. 1480
On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 19
Christ as the Man of Sorrows stands within a lush network of leafy branches known as Astwerk, a translation of architectural canopies and tracery into a vegetal vocabulary. Among the most innovative artists of the late fifteenth century, Peter Hemmel and the group of stainedglass painters he worked with known as the Strasbourg Workshop Cooperative executed glazing programs throughout southern Germany and into Austria. Except for Christ’s head and part of his drapery, which are nineteenth-century replacements, the panel is in superb condition.

See also acc. no. 1998.215.2

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Man of Sorrows
  • Artist: Lautenbach Master (German, active late 15th century)
  • Artist: Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft) (active Southern and Central Germany, ca. 1470–1500)
  • Date: ca. 1480
  • Geography: Made in Strasbourg, Upper Rhineland, Germany (present-day France)
  • Culture: German
  • Medium: Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint
  • Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 16 3/8 in. (49.5 x 41.6 cm)
  • Classification: Glass-Stained
  • Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1998
  • Object Number: 1998.215.1
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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