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The Entombment
Hans Schwarz1516
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
The Entombment is here inserted into an Italianate Renaissance niche. The formal language of Italian architecture became known in the North around 1510 thanks to woodcuts. The composition of this multifigured scene can be traced back to Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Entombment of 1509, while the emotional depictions appear to have been inspired by the works of Italian artists such as Donatello and Verrocchio.
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Details
- Title: The Entombment
- Creator: Hans Schwarz
- Date Created: 1516
- Physical Dimensions: 28.5 × 20 cm
- Technique and Material: Boxwood
- Provenance: Acquired in 1911
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
- Inv.-No.: 5943
- 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. 15 / Hans-Ulrich Kessler
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1492–93 Augsburg–1527 Augsburg
- Artist Biography: Schwarz was probably trained in Augsburg and was active for a time in Nuremberg, where he was in contact with Dürer’s workshop. He is known above all for his portrait medallions, cast in metal or carved from boxwood, of prominent contemporaries such as Dürer, Emperor Charles V, and Jakob Fugger. In addition there are more than 130 drawings by him—often preliminary studies for medallions.
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