St Lawrence before the Emperor (interior)

1460 · Private collection

religious

This double-sided panel shows on one side St Lawrence before the Emperor and on the other Clothing the Naked. The work is a fragment of an altarpiece shutter, in which the St Lawrence scene would have been oriented to the interior, visible in the altarpiece's open state. Three other double-sided panels were recognized as part of the same altarpiece.

St Lawrence before the Emperor (interior)

About the Artist

Master Of The Acts Of Mercy

Austrian painter, named after a set of panels depicting the six biblical acts of mercy and scenes from the martyrdoms of St John the Baptist and St Lawrence, around which a small oeuvre has been assembled. His localization in Salzburg is supported by the Nonnberg Crypt Altarpiece, putatively made for the Nonnberg Convent there.

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