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Relief with the Crucifixion of Christ
Peter Dell the Elder1528
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This very finely worked relief is the first dated work by Peter Dell the Elder. The last identifiable student of Tilman Riemenschneider opened the art of carving of his day to the themes and visual language of the age of the Reformation. In some cases he modeled his works on Lucas Cranach the Elder. Three of his panels found their way in the Kunstkammer in Dresden
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- Title: Relief with the Crucifixion of Christ
- Creator: Peter Dell the Elder
- Date Created: 1528
- Physical Dimensions: 48.7 × 60.7 × 3.4 cm
- Technique and Material: Pearwood, carved and painted
- Provenance: First mentioned in the inventory of the Kunstkammer in 1741
- Museum: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe
- Inv.-No.: I 49
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-061827
- External Link: http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/residenzschloss/gruenes-gewoelbe/historisches-gruenes-gewoelbe/index.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe/ Jürgen Karpinski; 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. 23 / Dirk Syndram
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1490 Würzburg–1552 Würzburg
- Artist Biography: Although he trained as a woodcarver in the workshop of Tilman Riemenschneider, Dell was initially influenced by the works of Hans Leinberger as well. Dell, who for a time was active in Freiberg for Duke Henry the Pious of Saxony, began to address Reformist pictorial themes from around 1530 onward. His oeuvre includes small sculptures in wood and bronze (statuettes, reliefs) as well as tomb sculptures in stone.
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