about 1469 of German-Scandinavian stock in the Hanseatic port city of Reval, now Tallinn
about 1469 of German-Scandinavian stock in the Hanseatic port city of Reval, now Tallinn
.; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2018, no. 7, repro.
.; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2018, no. 5, repro.
.; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2018, no. 3, repro.
This unusually large panel painting depicts three facets of Marian iconography: the Virgin’s corporeal assumption, the Immaculate Conception—the crescent moon and the radiance behind her identify Mary as the Woman of the Apocalyse, mentioned in Revelation 12:I—and the Coronation of the Virgin.
„Un important retable du Maître de la Légende de sainte Lucie conservé à Tallinn.
Michel Sittow, a northern painter who was born in Estonia on the Baltic Sea but apprenticed in Bruges, was an acclaimed portraitist at the Spanish court. After Queen Isabella’s death in 1504, his peripatetic career took him to several northern European centers, including Burgundy, where he probably painted this portrait.
.; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2018, no. 13, repro.
