This work consists of multiple parts

Related external works: Part

Nürnberger Meister um 1350/60: Der hl. Klara erscheint das Christuskind in einer Hostie (Innenseite); Kreuztragender Christus (untere Hälfte), Privatbesitz, Schottland

Nürnberger Meister um 1350/60: Joseph erkennt in Maria die Mutter Gottes (Innenseite); obere Hälfte eines Schmerzensmannes (Außenseite), Mischtechnik auf Eichenholz, 39,5 x 27,4 cm, Inv.-Nr. 1216, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie

Nürnberger Meister um 1350/60: Stigmatisation des hl. Franziskus (Innenseite); untere Häfte eines Schmerzenmannes (Außenseite), Mischtechnik auf Eichenholz, 44,2 x 27 cm, Inv.-Nr. Gm 94/1, Deutsches Historisches Museum zu Berlin

Nürnberger Meister um 1350/60: Johannes der Täufer und Johannes der Evangelist (Innenseite); obere Hälfte einer dreifigurigen Kreuzigung, ehem. Sammlung Konsul Harry Fuld, Frankfurt und Berlin, Verbleib unbekannt

The Coronation of the Virgin, reverse: Christ Carrying the Cross (fragment of an altar wing), ca. 1350 – 1360

Dimensions: 35.2 x 25.1 x min. 1.2 cm
maximum depth: 1.2 cm

Physical Description: Mixed technique on oak

Inventory Number: SG 443

Acquisition: Acquired in 1928

Status: On display, 2nd upper level, Old Masters, room 3

Texts

About the Work

This panel fragment presumably came from a convent of the Poor Clares in Nuremberg. It is typical testimony to late fourteenth-century female mysticism. The front features ‘The Coronation of the Virgin’. The banderoles quote the ‘Song of Solomon’ and characterise Mary as Christ’s bride, a symbol of the church and a loving soul – a quality with which particularly women could identify. The back shows the extant upper section of a cross-bearing Christ as a kind of instruction in vicarious suffering. The panel was part of a tabernacle altarpiece whose wings flanked a central sculpture.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: The Coronation of the Virgin, reverse: Christ Carrying the Cross (fragment of an altar wing)

Painter

Nuremberg Master ca. 1350/60

Verso: Christ Carrying the Cross (fragment, upper half)

Period Produced

14th century

School

Late Middle Ages

Object Type

painting (artwork)

Physical Description: Mixed technique on oak

Material

oak wood

Technique

mixed technique

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Spruchband Mariens: dileldus meus ame loquidur [sic!] (nach Hld 2,10 eigentlich "dilectus meus ad me loquitur", "Mein Geliebter spricht zu mir")
Spruchband Christi: veni electa mea (Hld 2,10, "Komme meine Erwählte")