Altar extract

Marienmünster Dießen high altar extract with the Trinity

Altar structure in St. Maria in Buxheim. The upper part is the extract from the altar with an extract picture

The altar extract is the upper part of an altar .

nature

It refers to the ornamental or architectural altar structure, the so-called crowning of the altar retable above the actual shrine and has developed from the attached crucifix or the crucifixion group of the winged altars . It is found in a particularly pronounced form from the middle of the 15th century, with various and numerous forms developing regionally (Swabia, Bavaria, Tyrol, etc.). Examples are the altars by Tilman Riemenschneider in Rothenburg (1505) and Veit Stoss in Cracow (1489). In the baroque era, there is often a painting on the extract, which is also called an extract , or a statue.

literature

• Hans Wentzel: Excerpt (Altar Excerpt) , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 1, 1937, Sp. 1306
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Baden-Württemberg II, 1997, p. 898 .

See also

• Burst

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Wentzel: Excerpt (Altar Excerpt) , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 1, 1937, Col. 1306