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Annunciation
Hans Wydyzc. 1500
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This refined group shows the meeting of two kneeling figures. The Virgin Mary interrupts her reading to receive the message that she will give birth to Jesus. She gathers her cloak around her in a protective gesture. By contrast, the angel’s billowing drapery suggests that he has just alighted. A symbol of purity, the vase of lilies stands at the center of the composition.
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Details
- Title: Annunciation
- Creator: Hans Wydyz
- Date Created: c. 1500
- Physical Dimensions: H: 22 cm
- Technique and Material: Linden
- Provenance: Acquired in 1918, gift of James Simon
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
- Inv.-No.: 8160
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815614
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/skulpturensammlung-und-museum-fuer-byzantinische-kunst/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinisch Kunst/ Antje Voigt; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 8 / Julien Chapuis
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: 1475 (?) Strasbourg (?)–1516 (?) Strasbourg
- Artist Biography: Wydyz, who was possibly the son of the sculptor Bartholomäus Widyz of Meissen, who is documented in Strasbourg, was active in Freiburg as a woodcarver and is documented there from 1497 to 1510. The Epiphany altarpiece (1505) of the cathedral there is one of his major works. Wydyz was also active in small sculptures. His work can be placed stylistically at the transition between late Gothic and Renaissance.
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