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  2. Isenheim Altarpiece - Wikipedia

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    [4] The inclusion of John the Baptist in this scene is symbolic, since he is considered as the last of the prophets to announce the coming of the Messiah. Outer wings opened: The outer wings of the Isenheim Altarpiece were opened for important festivals of the liturgical year, particularly those in honour of the Virgin Mary.

  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. The Chariot of Death - Wikipedia

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    Schuler depicts different personifications of Death: one is the angel of death in the centre of the painting, a young and beautiful but cold-faced woman with black hair and black wings, who drives the chariot while looking straight at the viewer; the other is a skeleton in a shroud, in the lower right corner of the painting, which is shown ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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).

  8. Issenheim - Wikipedia

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    Issenheim (French pronunciation: ⓘ; German: Isenheim) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.. The Isenheim Altarpiece, currently on display at the Unterlinden Museum of Colmar, was completed in 1515 by Matthias Grünewald for the Antonines monastery in Issenheim.

  9. Altarpiece - Wikipedia

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    Altarpieces were one of the most important products of Christian art especially from the late Middle Ages to the era of Baroque painting. [3] Ghent Altarpiece (1432), as above, closed view with the wings folded in. The word altarpiece, used for paintings, usually means a framed work of panel painting on wood, or later on canvas. In the Middle ...