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15th-century religious paintings
The Passion of Christ
(
French
:
La Passion du Christ
) is a set of ten late 15th-century,
Gothic
religious paintings of the
Passion of Jesus
now displayed in the
choir
of the
Catholic
part of
Old Saint Peter's Church
in
Strasbourg
,
France
. The set is classified as a
Monument historique
by the
French Ministry of Culture
since 1978.
[1]
History
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The
oil
[1]
paintings, depicting selected scenes from the
Passion of Jesus
, are dated approximately from 1485
[1]
or 1488
[2]
or around 1490.
[3]
The artist is generally thought to be one Heinrich Lutzelmann (or Henri Lutzelmann in French), active in Strasbourg during these times.
[1]
[2]
According to some scholars, he may be identical with the
Anonymous master
"
Master of the Drapery Studies
" (
German
:
Meister der Gewandstudien
),
[3]
[4]
whose attributed work is recorded in the
Alsatian
capital during that period.
[5]
The
Musee de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame
owns a few slightly earlier paintings by that artist, known in French as
Maitre des etudes de draperies
.
[6]
The Strasbourg Passion of Christ was originally painted for the new
Magdalene Church
, which was completed in 1478. That church was almost entirely destroyed by a fire in 1904. The Passion paintings, however, had been sold by the Magdalene
parish
to the Saint Peter's parish at some point in the 19th century after the opening of the
Neo-Gothic
extension and were thus preserved.
[2]
Most of the ten paintings feature
donor portraits
complete with
coats of arms
, on a much smaller scale than the main depicted event.
[2]
The paintings depict the episodes immediately preceding and following the
Crucifixion of Jesus
but not actually Jesus hanging from the Cross. In the church, this is represented by an 18th-century
crucifix
hung above the centre of the set.
[2]
The dimensions of the nine first paintings of the set are 203 centimetres (80 inches) high and 120 centimetres (47 inches) wide.
[4]
The tenth painting, the Descent from the Cross (or
Lamentation of Christ
) is approximately 155 centimetres (61 inches) wide and may not originally have belonged to the same set.
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Gallery
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See also
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References
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a
b
c
d
Base Palissy
:
PM67000345
, Ministere francais de la Culture.
(in French)
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a
b
c
d
e
Jordan, Benoit (December 2013).
Eglise catholique Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux Strasbourg
. paroisse catholique Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux. p. 16.
(note: the given ISBN, 377-0-0019-7806-2 seems incorrect)
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a
b
Boockmann, Margaretha (2013).
Schrift als Stigma. Hebraische und hebraisierende Inschriften auf Gemalden der Spatgotik
. Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg. pp. 244, 377, 412, 459.
ISBN
978-3-8253-6037-5
.
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a
b
Franzen, Wilfried (2002).
Die Karlsruher Passion und das "Erzahlen in Bildern": Studien zur suddeutschen Tafelmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts
. Lukas Verlag. pp. 122?125.
ISBN
3-931836-66-5
.
- ^
"Master of the Drapery Studies"
. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Archived
from the original on 4 November 2016
. Retrieved
3 November
2016
.
- ^
Dupeux, Cecile (1999).
Musee de Œuvre Notre-Dame
. Editions Scala. p. 58.
ISBN
2-86656-223-2
.
- ^
Franzen, Wilfried (2002).
Die Karlsruher Passion und das "Erzahlen in Bildern": Studien zur suddeutschen Tafelmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts
. Lukas Verlag. p. 123, footnote 332.
ISBN
3-931836-66-5
.
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