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Riemenschneider in Situ presents the newest research on the work of one of the most famous late medieval and early Renaissance sculptors, Tilman Riemenschneider. Moving beyond questions of style, date, and workshop practice, this volume investigates the sculptor’s programs across the south German region of Franconia that survive in situ, within the particular contexts for which they were designed and in which they were originally experienced. In shifting the focus from fragmentary pieces in museum collections to extant installations in their original church settings, the volume contributes to a wave of scholarship interested in reanimating medieval artistic ensembles by considering them as complex visual environments. Together, the authors—conservators, museum professionals, and art historians—provide an essential and overdue study of Riemenschneider’s best-preserved pieces, while also making an important, collaborative addition to the broader discipline of pre-modern art history.

Sculpture --- altarpieces --- religious art --- Riemenschneider, Tilman --- Art religieux --- sculpture [visual works] --- Sculptors --- Renaissance sculpture --- Germany, Switzerland & Austria (c. 500-1500) --- Medieval sculpture

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Alabaster was a popular material in European sculpture, especially from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Its relative availability and easy to sculpt characteristic made it a highly suitable material for both large monuments and small objects, for mass production and individual works, from England to Spain and France to the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. This material has been the subject of multidisciplinary research in various European countries for several decades. The research combines material analyses with historical and art-historical approaches. This publication, made for the occasion of the large exhibition on the theme at M Leuven opening on October 14th, brings together all renown specialists on the material and sheds light on the many facets of alabaster, such as its physical and chemical properties as well as its translucency, its whiteness, its softness, and its beautiful sheen, all of which made it a popular material used in different types of sculpture from the middle ages to the baroque, all throughout Europe, ranging from bespoke tombs, funerary monuments and commissioned sculptures and altarpieces to commercially interesting formulas such as English or Mechelen alabaster reliefs.).

Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- alabaster [mineral] --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Sculpture en albâtre --- Monuments funéraires. --- Histoire. --- Matériaux. --- M - Museum Leuven (Louvain, Belgique). --- Artistic techniques and materials --- Medieval sculpture --- Baroque & Rococo sculpture --- Renaissance sculpture --- 7 <09> --- 73 --- 73 Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur --- Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur --- 73 Plastic arts --- Plastic arts --- 7 <09> Kunstgeschiedenis. Kunsthistorie --- Kunstgeschiedenis. Kunsthistorie --- Kunstgeschiedenis --- Religieuze kunst --- Beeldhouwkunst --- Middeleeuwen --- sculptuur. --- albasten beelden. --- 1300 - 1650. --- Europa. --- sculptuur --- albasten beelden --- 1300 - 1650 --- Europa