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Female Saint with Coats of Arms and Animals
Hans Baldungundated
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This sheet shows a female saint with crown and cross, probably Saint Helen, with the coats of arms of the Reinach and Andlau families. A bear is supporting the Andlau coat of arms. The Reinach coat of arms has a lion in the escutcheon and as a helmet ornament. This pen drawing was a design for the middle section of a pane of stained glass. Red chalk lines show the cames for the glass panel.
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- Title: Female Saint with Coats of Arms and Animals
- Creator: Hans Baldung Grien
- Date Created: undated
- Physical Dimensions: 23.5 × 17.7 cm
- Technique and Material: Pen drawing, lead cames marked in red chalk
- Provenance: Ehlers Collection, acquired in 1938
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: KdZ 17675
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018511
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/kupferstichkabinett/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Dietmar Katz; 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. 19 / Nadine Söll
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1485 Schwäbisch Gmünd (?)–1545 Strasbourg
- Artist Biography: Baldung, born into a family of intellectuals, entered Dürer’s workshop in 1503. There he worked on altarpieces and designs for stained glass and woodcuts. In 1509 he settled in Strasbourg, but he continued to accept commissions for the City of Freiburg and for Emperor Maximilian I (prayer book of 1515). Baldung, whose oeuvre includes both portraits and fantastic scenes (with witches), was considered by his contemporaries Dürer’s true artistic successor.
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