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  2. Isenheim Altarpiece - Wikipedia

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    Isenheim altarpiece - First view Second view Third view (the wings in this picture are actually the back of those in the second one, so that they can be seen when the altar is closed, with the saints Anthony and Paul at the right side and the demons at the left) The altarpiece has two sets of wings, displaying three configurations: Wings closed:

  3. Temptation of Saint Anthony in visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Matthias Grünewald, inner right wing of the Isenheim Altarpiece depicting the Temptation of St. Anthony, 1512-1516 (oil on panel). The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.

  4. Unterlinden Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Unterlinden Museum (French: Musée Unterlinden) is located in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France. The museum, housed in a 13th-century Dominican religious sisters' convent and a 1906 former public baths building, is home to the Isenheim Altarpiece by the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald and features a large collection of local and international artworks and manufactured ...

  5. Nikolaus Hagenauer - Wikipedia

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    Interior of the Isenheim Altarpiece (c. 1500), attributed to Nikolaus Hagenauer. Nikolaus Hagenauer (c. 1445/1460 — before 1538) was a German late gothic sculptor from Hagenau (Alsace in the Holy Roman Empire, present day France).

  6. Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    While earlier Northern artists showed Christ rising out of the tomb, but still with his feet on the ground, or the tomb itself, Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (1505–1516) has a striking composition with Christ hovering in mid-air, which was already common in Italy, for example in a Raphael altarpiece of about 1500 (see gallery) and ...

  7. Andachtsbilder - Wikipedia

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    Andachtsbilder (singular Andachtsbild, German for devotional image) is a German term often used in English in art history for Christian devotional images designed as aids for prayer or contemplation. The images "generally show holy figures extracted from a narrative context to form a highly focused, and often very emotionally powerful, vignette".

  8. Caspar Isenmann - Wikipedia

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    Caspar (or Kaspar) Isenmann (French: Gaspard Isenmann) was a Gothic painter from Alsace.As the municipal painter [1] of his hometown Colmar and the creator of a major altarpiece for the prestigious St Martin's Church, he was an important representative of the Upper Rhenish school of painting of the mid-15th century [2] and a probable master of Martin Schongauer.

  9. The Chariot of Death - Wikipedia

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    The Chariot of Death is a large allegorical painting by Théophile Schuler. It was gifted to the Unterlinden Museum by the artist in 1862. Its inventory number is 88.RP.454. [2] The painting is considered one of the most emblematic of the collection (which includes the world-famous Isenheim Altarpiece).