St. Andrew in the Work of Tilmann Riemenschneider

Abstract

THREE statues of St. Andrew by Tilmann Riemenschneider have hitherto been known: the stone statue in the Wurzburg Cathedral from Riemenschneider's workshop (Figs. 1–2); the lindenwood statue in the altarpiece of the Twelve Apostles in the Kurpfalzische Museum, Heidelberg, which after removal of its coat of paint proved to be a work by the master (Figs. 5–7); and the painted wooden statue that disappeared from the chapel of the Ehehaltenhaus in Wurzburg. The last can be evaluated from the photograph with some probability as also a work of the master (Fig. 3). A fourth statue of St. Andrew by Riemenschneider's hand, an unpainted lindenwood sculpture in the collection of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, so far unpublished, will be introduced here (Figs. 8–10). Yet before we discuss this statue, we will have to study the other three, since that has never been done with any degree of thoroughness. Through such a comparative study a new insight into Riemenschneider's development during the first decade of the si...