Paumgärtner Altarpiece

painting by Dürer

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Renaissance art

  • St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
    In Western painting: Germany

    In “The Paumgärtner Altarpiece” of 1502–04 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich), for example, the saints in the wings are depicted with the scrolls and a complexity of composition more reminiscent of a heraldic achievement, while the broad planes of the architecture and the large, simple figures of the…

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