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Historical Archive: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Wood


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comb, boxwood, France c.1475-1525, French inscription "per voz servir", PMA 1930-64-75
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oak chest with Last Supper, 16th c., Lille A.178. This work has its own page.
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St. Augustine holding a heart, oak, 16th-c. Flemish, Lille Hospice Comtesse, SPBA 400
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Resurrection pendant, 16th c. Spain or Spanish colonial: wood, rock crystal, enamel, pearl. AIC 1992.532
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Tree of Jesse, "House of Abraham," Sens, 16th c., which has its own page
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16th c. door w. wrought iron fittings c.1200-50, church near Fåborg, NMD D1301
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Pensive Christ (Way to Calvary) fr. Bernardine church Wrocław, painted wood, Wrocław c.1500, MNW Śr. 105. This work has its own page.
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Holy Kindred, wood with traces of polychrome, c.1500, LMM O,2511. For additional views see Mainz.
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Saint Margaret, wood, Meister mit dem Brustlatz, Mainz? c.1500, LMM O,2507. For additional views see Mainz.
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reliquary of a Benedictine, prob. Saint Scholastica, wood with paint and gilding, north France or south Netherlands c.1500, PMA 1996-66-1
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SS. Jerome and Gregory, shop of Jörg Syrlin the younger, lindenwood and polychrome, Ulm c.1500, UMMA 1958/1.59. This work has its own page.
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saint, linden wood w. polychromy, Tilman Riemenschneider/Hans Backoffen c.1500, SF 46.8.1, which has its own page
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platter for Head of John the Baptist, early 16th c., NaumburgCT, which has its own page
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oak altarpiece 1500-25, St. Michael's, Hildesheim, which has its own pages
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pea-pod prayer beads, boxwood, Adam Dircksz workshop, c.1500-35, KGM F 2497. For other views see Berlin.
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altar 1519, Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, which has its own page
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Annunciation and Arma Christi, wood rosary bead, south Low Countries, early 16th c., Cluny: Louvre OA347. For full chain see Louvre.
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Saint Lawrence, polychromed wood, Tilman Riemenschneider 1502-1510, CMA 1959.42 (Not available at higher resolution)
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Saint Stephen, polychromed wood, Tilman Riemenschneider 1502-1510, CMA 1959.43
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St. Luke painting Virgin fr. church St. Mary Magdalene Wrocław, limewood c.1506, Jakob Beinhart (fl. Wrocław 1483-1525), MNW Śr. 15. This work has its own page.
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Holy Kindred with Emerentia (mother of Anna, Emerentia Selbviert) from Badersleben, polychromed wood, Thuringia or Saxony c.1510, loan from St. Peter and Paul, Badersleben, DMP SK71. For other views see DMP.
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Triptych of St. Stanislaus the Bishop (d.1079) from church in Pławno, painted and gilt limewood, Krakow c.1510-20, MNW Śr. 18. This work has its own page.
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Death riding a lion, wood, 1513, from a clock with moving figures at Kloster Heilsbronn, BNM MA3450
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Saint Adrian of Nicomedia, wood and polychrome, Flemish c.1515, IMA 45.8. For other views see IMA.
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Good Thief (Dysmas) from a Crucifixion, walnut, School of Kalkar (Germany) c.1520, UMMA 1976/1.233. This work has its own page.
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Virgin and Child (wood?), Jan van Steffeswert 1524, with later clouds and beams, Aachen cathedral choir. The cathedral has its own pages.
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Meerbeck carver, Passion c.1525-30, North Paradise, Cathedral, Hildesheim, which has its own pages with details
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Palmesel, wood, Swabia c.1530, SMBByz 7710, which has its own page
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Passion scenes, poss. Arnt van Tricht, oak predella fr. Kalkar c.1530-40, Schn A859. For detail see Schn.
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marquetry on archiepiscopal throne, Giovanni Battista del Cervelliera 1536, int. Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages
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marriage chest (cassone) with river god, wood, Italy last third of 16th c., MAAB
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coffered ceiling, design 1596, Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages
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Crucifixion, Gaspar Núñez Delgado 1599; ivory, ebony, mahogany, silver, and polychrome, IMA 1995.24. For full cross and details see IMA.
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Entombment (dead Christ tended by angels), wood and paint, Navarrese sculptor c.1600, MFAB 83.1
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pew of King Christian IV c.1600, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page
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wooden chest, 17th-c. Flemish, Lille Y5. For details see l’Hospice Comtesse.
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linen press, oak, 17th c., Lille Hospice Comtesse 2006.3.1. For another view see see l’Hospice Comtesse.
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Crucifixion: corpus 17th c., Vierge Ouvrante, polychromed wood, 1375-1425, Cluny Cl. 12060, which has its own page.
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pulpit c.1650, church at Jelling, which has its own page
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standing cross, boxwood with pearls and glass, Greece c.1650-1800, UMMA 1961/1.177. This work has its own page.
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St. Jonah, metropolitan of Moscow, wood and tempera shrine cover from Cathedral of the Assumption, c.1675-1700, KremlinArch. For detail see KremlinArch.
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Medusa, oak and iron, 1691, Lille Hospice Comtesse ML 35