Madonna auf der Mondsichel

c. 1505

Tilman Riemenschneider and workshopc. 1460 Heiligenstadt im Eichsfeld (Thüringen) – 1531 Würzburg
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The full-round construction and the cloud console indicate a high position, visible from below, e.g. in a hanging rosary. - The figure replicates a slightly older Mary figure in the Mainfränkisches Museum in Würzburg. The crescent moon points to the apocalyptic woman after Revelation Johannis, XII, 1.
Also known as
Madonna on the Crescent Moon Vierge sur le croissant de lune
Medium
Limewood with traces of polychromy
Dimensions
object: 101.5 x 30.5 x 25 cm
Inventory number
1944/0023
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, 1944