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Madonna on the Crescent Moon
Tilman Riemenschneider and workshopc. 1505
Kunsthaus Zürich
Zurich, Switzerland
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.
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Details
- Title: Madonna on the Crescent Moon
- Creator: Tilman Riemenschneider and workshop
- Creator Lifespan: um 1460 – 1531
- Creator Death Place: Würzburg, Germany
- Creator Birth Place: Heiligenstadt in Eichsfeld (Thuringia), Germany
- Date Created: c. 1505
- Physical Dimensions: 101,5 x 30,5 x 25 cm
- Type: sculpture
- External Link: Kunsthaus Zürich, Online Collection
- Medium: Limewood with traces of polychromy
- Art Movement: Renaissance
- Original title: Madonna auf der Mondsichel
- Inventory number: 1944/0023
- Credit line: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1944
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