Torri, Valentina; Kreikenbom, Marianne - The Holy Abbot: A Late Gothic Wooden Sculpture in the Liebieghaus

Berlin, Reimer, 2001. Hardcover. Green cloth covers, gilt lettering. 248 pages, 79 pages of plates : illustrations. Text in German. Contents: The Holy Abbot in the Liebieghaus: an introduction /; Valentina Torri --; Technical observations on the object /; Cordula Kähler --; Forms of the representation of saints within the southern German retabel art around 1500 /; Hartmut Krohm --; The face of the abbot : physio- and pathognomic rhetoric in the late Middle Ages /; Martin Büchsel --; expression and symbolism of holiness at the time of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation /; Patrizia Castelli -- On; Artist without work, a work without artist : Hans Backoffen and the holy abbot of frankfurt's Liegieghaus /; Winfried Wilhelmy --Die; Abbot figure and the problem of the Middle Rhine : Reflections on the question of Middle Rhine art or art on the Middle Rhine? /; Wolf Goeltzer --The; Holy Abbot and Green Forest : Chronology of a misunderstanding /; Hanns Hubach --; The relationship of Veit Stoss and the contemporary Nuremberg sculpture to the holy abbot in Liebieghaus /; Stefan Roller --; The holy abbot and the group of figures of the unjust judge in Nuremberg /; Edgar Lein --; Hans Leinberger and the sculpture of the early 16th century on the Middle Rhine /; Ulrich Söding --; The abbot figure in the Liebieghaus and the Passau sculpture of the late Gothic /; Lothar Schultes --; Aspects of the Frankfurt abbot from the point of view of contemporary art development in Austria /; Arthur Saliger. VG .

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