Master of the Schlägl Altarpiece
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The visual focus of this altarpiece is the suffering and death of Christ on the cross. So-called Passion cycles in art include the events leading up to and following the Crucifixion, not only as single subjects but as scenes meant to be read in sequence. Passion cycles were promoted by the two great teaching orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, for whom this subject represented the main religious drama of their churches, and also by the German mystics who advocated private contemplation on the humanity and suffering of Christ. The original context for this altarpiece remains unknown, but it was probably made for a religious institution in Westphalia in the Rhine Valley. During the 1870s it was given to the Abbey of Schlägl, near Linz in Upper Austria, from which both altarpiece and artist take their names. The altarpiece is not preserved today in its original format, and some of the individual scenes are missing. Scholars continue to debate the original number of scenes and their sequencing; nine of the original panels have survived.
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anonymous — Crucifixion with Saints Cosmas and Damian
Master of the Heisterbach Altar — Crucifixion
Hieronymus Bosch — Crucifixion with a Donor
Jan Provost — The Crucifixion
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen — De kruisiging
Matthias Grünewald — The Crucifixion
Aelbrecht Bouts — Crucifixion
André d’Ypres — The Crucifixion
anonymous — Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Mary Ma
Cornelis Engebrechtsz — Christ on the Cross, with Mary, John
Adriaen Isenbrandt — The Crucifixion
Quinten Metsys — Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John
