The Crucifixion

religious

In its own period the work reproduced here (the central panel of the Wildungen Altarpiece) was notable for its huge dimensions. The crosses of Christ and the two thieves stand before a golden background in a rather arid landscape. In the rear the horizon is closed by the dark silhouette of bushes.

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About the Artist

Konrad Von Soest

He was the principal Westphalian painter of the early 15th century. His oniy certain work is the signed polyptych in Niederwildungen Parish Church, obscurely dated, but probably 1404. This shows the influence of the soft style, and, more precisely, contemporary Franco-Burgundian work. Other works attributed to him are in churches in Soest and Dortmund.

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