Sermon of St Albertus Magnus

1470 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

religious

St Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280) was a Dominican scholastic, bishop, Doctor of the Church, natural scientist, and philosopher. His greatest scholarly achievement was the introduction of Aristotelian thought to the West through the systematic paraphrasing of the entire corpus, which he began in 1449, assisted by his student Thomas Aquinas, The panel has traditionally been attributed to Friedrich Walther.

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About the Artist

Friedrich Walther

German painter and draftsman. He worked in Dinkelsbühl, Nördlingen, Cannstatt, and Konstanz, where he is last documented. In 1474 he is mentioned as a member of a workshop cooperative with Friedrich Herlin in Nördlingen, with whom he developed close stylistic affinities. His artistic identity depends largely on a panel painting in Bern depicting St Wendelin with the donatrix Barbara Strauss of Nördlingen that is signed FW and dated 1467.

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