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Artist/Maker(s): The Peter Hemmel von Andlau Workshop (German, active Strasbourg, about 1420/1425 - after 1501)
Culture: German
Place(s): France (Place created)
Date: 1479
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 79.8 x 140.2 cm (31 7/16 x 55 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions: Painted inscription on the scroll (far left), in red and black Gothic Textualis: O virgo pverpera martires decori pijs precatibvs affecto offerri incomprehensibili Trinitati (O child-bearing virgin, noble martyrs, I desire with pious prayers to be offered to the inapprehensible Trinity) [the underlined letters are painted in red and form a chronogram (an inscription in which specific letters can also be interpreted as Roman numerals in order to encode a date, in this case 1479)] Painted inscription on a scroll held by the Holy Spirit, center: ·I·N·R·I·
Previous Attribution(s): Master of the Drapery Studies (German, active 15th century)
SKU: 200919
