id: 135920 accession number: 1959.42 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.42 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:39.233000 Saint Lawrence, 1502–8. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531). Lindenwood with polychromy and gilding; overall: 93.8 x 38.5 x 21.8 cm (36 15/16 x 15 3/16 x 8 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1959.42 title: Saint Lawrence title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1502–8 creation date earliest: 1502 creation date latest: 1508 current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Würzburg, 16th century technique: lindenwood with polychromy and gilding department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 93.8 x 38.5 x 21.8 cm (36 15/16 x 15 3/16 x 8 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages opening date: 1999-10-03T00:00:00 Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 7-May 14, 2000). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Richard von Passavant-Gontard, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany date: footnotes: citations: C. von Pannwitz, Bennebroek, The Netherlands date: footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1959 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1959- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Before Riemenschneider finally settled in Würzburg, Germany, in 1484, he traveled to Strasbourg and Colmar, where he became acquainted with the works of the engraver Martin Schongauer. digital description: wall description: This sculpture, along with that of Saint Stephen (1959.43), and two female saints preserved in Frankfurt (Historisches Museum), are believed to be the remaining fragments of a large altarpiece carved by Riemenschneider for the Dominican convent in Rothenburg in Franconia (demolished in 1813). Saints Stephen and Lawrence both wear the dalmatic to indicate their status as deacons in the early church. Each holds a symbol of his martyrdom; here, Saint Lawrence holds a grill to indicate his death by burning. Late Gothic Style Art in Germany through the early 1500s remained firmly anchored in the late Gothic style with its associated interests in realism. Riemenschneider was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of this style, a recognized master in both stone and wood. His flourishing workshop employed as many as 40 apprentices in sculpting, woodcarving, and painting. His sculptures are noted for the dreamy, melancholy, and introspective quality in their expressions, as well as their remarkable attention to detail. --- RELATED WORKS id: 135931 Saint Stephen, 1502–8. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531). Lindenwood with polychromy and gilding; overall: 93.5 x 35 x 23.5 cm (36 13/16 x 13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1959.43 relationship: --- CITATIONS Feulner, Adolf, and Theodor Müller. Geschichte der deutschen Plastik. München: F. Bruckmann, 1887. page number: p. 165 url: Riemenschneider, Tilman, and Carl Streit. Tylmann Riemenschneider: 1460-1531 ; Leben und Kunstwerke des fränkischen Bildschnitzers. 1 (1888) 1 (1888). Berlin: Wasmuth, 1888. page number: p. 23 url: Tönies,Eduard "Leben und Werke des Würzburger Bildscnitzers Tilmann Riemenschneider" Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte XXII (1900). page number: p. 261, nos. 2, 3 url: Weber, Anton, and A. Schnizlein. Til Riemenschneider: sein Leben und Wirken. Regensburg: J. Habbel, 1911. page number: pp. 192, 247 url: Schmitt, Otto, and Georg Swarzenski. Meisterwerke der bildhauerkunst in Frankfurter privatbesitz. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter kunstverein, 1921. page number: p. 28, nos. 138-9 url: Bier, Justus, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilmann Riemenschneider. Augsburg: Filser, 1925. page number: p. 10 url: Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Sammlung R. von Passavant-Gontard. Frankfurt am Main: Städtelsches Kunstinstitut, 1929. page number: url: Schilling, R. "Ausstellung der Sammlung R. v. Passavant-Gontard im Städelschen Kunstinstitut," Pantheon III (April, 1929). page number: pp. 185, 187 url: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 28, 28. Allgemeines Lexikon Der Bildenden Kunstler Von Der Antike Bis Zur Gegenwart / Unter Mitwirkung Von 320 Fachgelehrten Des In- Und Auslandes ; Herausgegeben Von Ulrich Thieme Und Felix Becker. Leipzig: E.A. Seeman, 1934. page number: pp. 333-4 url: The Art Quarterly (Winter 1959). page number: p. 388 url: Riemenschneider, Tilmann, and William D. Wixom. "Two Lindenwood Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 9 (1959). page number: pp. 188-197 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142360 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Saint Lawrence and Saint Stephen,” September 14, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0434 The Connoisseur (March 1960). page number: p. 136 url: La Chronique des Arts (January 1960). page number: p. 34, pl. 113 url: Bier, Justus, "Two Statues: St. Stephen and St. Lawrence by Riemenschneider in the Cleveland Museum of Art," The Art Quarterly XXIII, 3 (Autumn 1960). page number: pp. 219, 223 url: Bober, Harry, "Medieval Art at Cleveland" Apollo LXXVII no. 22 (1963). page number: p. 455 url: Wixom, William D. Two Lindenwood Sculptures by Tillmann Riemenschneider. Thesis--New York University, February 1963, 1963. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 76 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n100 Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: no. 111 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 76 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n100 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Berthold Fricke. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970. page number: p. 41 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 87 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n107 Bier, Justus, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilmann Riemenschneider, His Life and Work. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. page number: pp. 8-9, 50-52, Pl. 6A-B url: Metford, J. C. J. Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend. 1983. page number: pp. 59.43, 159 url: Riemenschneider, Tilman, Julien Chapuis, and Michael Baxandall. Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages. 1999. page number: p. 108, no. 4; pp. 283-298, cat. no. 32D url: Hayum, Andree "A Devotion to Carving: The Art of Tilman Riemenschneider" Art in America (July 2000). page number: p. 93 url: Kalden-Rosenfeld, Iris. Tilman Riemenschneider und seine Werkstatt: mit einem Katalog der allgemein als Arbeiten Riemenschneiders und seiner Werkstatt akzeptierten Werke. Königstein im Taunus: Langewiesche, 2001. page number: p. 127, no. 174, Kat. 14 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 19, fig. 13 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 244-245, no. 91 url: Krohm, Hartmut, and Tobias Kunz. Nicht die Bibliothek, sondern das Auge: westeuropäische Skulptur und Malerei an der Wende zur Neuzeit : Beiträge zu Ehren von Hartmut Krohm. Petersberg: M. Imhof, 2008. page number: p. 263 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. page number: p. 62, fig. 52 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. page number: p. 48, fig. 40 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 158-9 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 281 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.42/1959.42_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.42/1959.42_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.42/1959.42_full.tif