Master of the Stavelot Portable Altarpiece

As a master of supporting altar of Stavelot one is medieval Mosan goldsmith called that by 1140-1150 a portable altar created originally in the Abbey of Stavelot in today's region Wallonia was and today in Brussels in the Royal Museums of Art and d 'Histoire is kept, the so-called portable altar of Stavelot . The name goes back to the art historian Otto von Falke .

The master of the Stavelot portable altarpiece is an important representative of the Maasland goldsmith's art , succeeding Godefroy von Huy .

Otto von Falke attributed further works to the master:

• Triptych from Alton Tower, London, Victoria and Albert Museum
• Parts of a support altar, Florence, Bargello
• Bronze cross from the Soltykoff Collection, London, Victoria and Albert Museum
• a pair of bronze candlesticks, Hildesheim, cathedral treasure

The Stavelot portable altar should not be confused with the Stavelot triptych , also from the Stavelot Abbey , now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

literature

• Otto von Falke : The master of the portable altar of Stavelot. In: Pantheon. Vol. 10, 1932, ISSN  0031-0999 , pp. 279-283.
• Alice Gudera: The portable altar from Stavelot. Iconography and style . WMIT-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-929542-25-0 .
• Susanne Wittekind : Altar - Reliquary - Retable. Art and liturgy with Wibald von Stablo. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-13102-4 , pp. 51-172.

Web links

• Images of the Stavelot portable altar
• Side view of the Stavelot portable altar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory no. 1590.
2. ↑ Otto von Falke: The master of the portable altar of Stavelot. In: Pantheon. Vol. 10, 1932, pp. 279-283.
3. ↑ See Anton Legner (Ed.): Rhein und Maas. Art and culture 800–1400. An exhibition by the Schnütgen Museum of the City of Cologne and the Belgian ministries for French and Dutch culture. Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne 1972, the portable altar by Stavelot there cat.-no. G 13.
4. ↑ Inv. No. 4757-1858 .
5. ↑ The time of the Hohenstaufen . Stuttgart 1977, No. 545.
6. ↑ Inv. No. 7938-1862 . Peter Springer: Cross feet. Iconography and typology of a high medieval device (= bronze devices of the Middle Ages, vol. 3). Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1981, 169–173 No. 40.
7. ↑ Otto von Falke, Erich Meyer: Romanesque candlesticks and vessels, casting vessels of the Gothic (= bronze devices of the Middle Ages, vol. 1). Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1935, 99 No. 48.