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Standing Female Saint
Creator
Martin SchongauerGerman Artist · 1450–1491
All works by this person →Today Martin Schongauer is famed for his graphic arts, but in his own day, he was celebrated for his painting. He was "so excellent an artist that his paintings were carried to Italy, Spain, France, and England, and other parts of the world," enthused one sixteenth-century report. Little is known of Schongauer's life, but his work shows so much influence of Rogier van der Weyden that Giorgio Vasar
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- 1490
- Medium
- Pen and gray and black ink, over traces of black chalk
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 02634571-f500-4a93-acc9-3e9b9233a38e
This drawing of a crowned female saint could have been made as part of a model book, to be used and reused in any number of compositions. Her downcast, sorrowful expression, indicative of piety and suffering, harmonizes with the broken, twisting folds of her robe. During the second half of the 1400s in Germany, drawing emerged as an important art form, and this is one of the relatively rare surviving examples from this period.
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