Julien Chapuis
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
Yale University Press,
1998.
352 pp.; 150 color ills.; 70 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(0300081626)
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December 28, 1999
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000; Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 10-May 14, 2000.
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Most Americans will know about Tilman Riemenschneider from the wonderful 1980 publication, Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, by Michael Baxandall, one of the rare discussions of German wood sculpture in English, or perhaps from the scattered fragments of the artist’s works in American museums, such as Cleveland or Raleigh (an essay by William Wixom in the present catalogue chronicles “Riemenschneider in America” and offers a useful checklist). Now viewers have the opportunity to visit an...