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The Mater Dolorosa, ca. 1480, Made in Swabia, Germany, South German, Pot-metal glass and colorless glass, silver stain, and vitr
The Mater Dolorosa, ca. 1480, Made in Swabia, Germany, South German, Pot-metal glass and colorless glass, silver stain, and vitreous paint, 19 5/8 x 16 3/8 in. ( x cm), Glass-Stained, Lautenbach Master (German, active late 15th century), Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft) (active Southern and Central Germany, ca. 1470–1500), Christ's mourning mother (Mater dolorosa) stands within a lush network of leafy branches known as Astwerk, a translation of architectural canopies and tracery into a vegetal vocabulary. Among the most innovative artists of the late fifteenth century, Peter Hemmel and the group of stainedglass painters he worked with known as the Strasbourg Workshop Cooperative executed glazing programs throughout southern Germany and into Austria
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