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  • Title: "Mater Dolorosa"
  • Creator: Hemmel, Peter, painter (Lautenbach Master)
  • Description: The architectural elements in the scene—the canopies and tracery—that typically would be depicted as stone appear here in vegetal form. The "Mater Dolorosa" seems to sprout from this organic arrangement. The painting is largely executed in grisaille.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license
  • Subject (See Also): Mary, Virgin, Saint Mater Dolorosa, Artistic  Motif
  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 15
  • Date: ca. 1480
  • Related Work: Another window from the Constance Cathedral chapter house with the same decorative motifs: Man of Sorrows http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1998.215.1,2"
  • Current Location: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, Collection 1998.215.1
  • Original Location: Constance Cathedral Chapter House
  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Stained glass windows
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Pot-metal glass; Vitreous paint
  • Donor: Male religious; Dean and Chapter of Constance Cathedral
  • Height/Width/Length(cm): 41.6 cm/ 16.4"/49.5 cm/ 19.5"/
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