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Painting
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Attributed to Master of Herzogenburg, active late 1400s
Master of Herzogenburg
Austria
Male
Attributed to
31 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (81 x 53 cm)
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Oil
Oil
ca. 1490
1485
1495
Painting
Originally part of a larger work, this late medieval panel painting depicts Christ, accompanied by three of his disciples, praying in the Garden of Gethsemane on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives, just outside Jerusalem. While he prays for the strength to accept his predestined death, his disciples, whom he has asked to keep watch, fall asleep. Although the painting is unsigned, scholars identify its artist as the “Master of Herzogenburg” because of striking visual similarities with another late medieval altarpiece from the Austrian village of Herzogenburg.
The many pieces of tissue on the painting’s surface were applied by a conservator decades ago to secure unstable and flaking paint. Other issues include cracking in the upper right and center of the panel. MAG staff is now in the process of working with the University of Buffalo conservation program to conduct X-ray and infrared analysis; this should allow us to see the drawing below the painted surface.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
1936.52
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/27/2001
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11/6/2012
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36.52DI#3
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10/20/2015
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