Saint James The Greater, German Renaissance Of The Sixteenth Century

German Renaissance of the sixteenth century
In the manner of Hans Baldung (Schwäbisch Gmünd, c. 1485 – Strasbourg 1545)

Saint James the Greater Full details (click HERE)

Oil on panel, 65 x 25 cm.
Framed 85 x 46 cm.

Provenance: Dorotheum Vienna, 10.09.86, lot 371 (see old label on the back of the painting)

The panel in question depicts a full-length portrait of the apostle James the Greater: the saint can be identified unequivocally by the presence of his main attributes, namely the stick, the hat decorated with the characteristic shells and the cloak, all distinctive elements of the pilgrim.

St James is therefore depicted as a pilgrim, and the stick in particular is the attribute that classical iconography assigns to James as an aid on the long journey made by pilgrims in Galicia, in north-western Spain, to visit his tomb.

We are examining an oil on panel painting, the work of a German Renaissance artist active in the 16th century, which fully reflects the stylistic canons of the works of some painters gravitating around the prolific school of Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528).

Carefully analysing the details of the composition and the style with which they were defined, we are inclined to attribute its realisation to one of his pupils. Among them is the German Hans Baldung (1485 - 1545) who in 1503 moved to Nuremberg where he completed his training with Dürer; he is without doubt the most appropriate artist to be compared to our work, which is in turn one of the great founders of the Danube School, also influenced by Lucas Cranach, which we see reflected in our painting.

The attention to colour is of primary importance in his poetics, with a very rich palette and a predilection for primary colours such as red and green, here embellished by the pale violet of the tunic.


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