Wooden and Stone Sculpture

Masterpieces of the Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The Madonna comes from Ceský Krumlov (Krumau) in southern Bohemia, but stylistically it is a product of Prague court art. This type of Virgin figure
Krumauer Madonna
Riemenschneider's religious beliefs and his own notion of the high quality of his works as autonomous works of art were already visible in his early
Tilman Riemenschneider
Maria mit dem Kinde
This relief marks an apogee in the work of Rossellino. He succeeds in a masterly manner in depicting a close and heartfelt connection between mother
Antonio Rossellino
Madonna mit dem Kinde
The representation of children belongs among the most charming motifs revived by Renaissance art under the influence of Hellenism. Although himself
Desiderio da Settignano
Lachender Knabe; Büste
The notable feature of this relief and a similar one in the Ca' d'Oro in Venice is that in each case the double portrait of a young couple appears to
Tullio Lombardo
Junges Paar
The Dalmatian artist Francesco Laurana was one of the great itinerant artists of the Early Italian Renaissance. He probably created this bust during
Francesco Laurana
Isabella von Aragon oder Ippolita Maria Sforza
Usually composed as a three-figure group, the image contrasts thematically youth and beauty with age, embodied in the figures of the youth and the
Hans Holbein d. Ä.
Vanitas
Dürer once made the laudatory remark that he had never seen another wood carver the equal of Conrat Meit. Meit worked for Archduchess Margaret, Regent
Conrat Meit
Adam
Little is known about the monogramist I P, one of the principle masters of the Danube school. Based on his oeuvre, it seems likely that he initially
I. P. Meister
Verspottung des Hiob
The bust originates from the Palazzo Zorzi next to the Ponte dei Greci in Venice. Francesco Sansovino in his Venetia Città nobilissima et singolare,
Alessandro Vittoria
Porträt einer Dame aus dem Hause Zorzi
In front of her prie-dieu bench the saint collapses into the arms of two angels, of whom the one on the left is driving an arrow (now broken off)
Tommaso Amantini
Ekstase der Hl. Therese
This work belongs to a series of six portrait busts of the various Habsburg monarchs living around 1695 and their male offspring. The series was
Paul Strudel
Kaiser Leopold I.
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