Shop art print and framed art Madonna of the Rose Bower by Martin Schongauer

The Virgin and the Rose Bush, an altarpiece on wood dating from 1473, is a religious painting by Martin Schongauer (200 × 114.5 cm) depicting the Virgin and Child seated in a garden decorated with plants and birds, surmounted by two angels wearing crowns. It is currently on display in the Dominican church in Colmar. Originally larger (255 × 165 cm), the painting was reframed, probably after a fall that damaged it, and then, at the beginning of the 20th century, fitted with a wooden frame and placed inside an altarpiece with shutters - which is how it is presented today. The Madonna of the Rose Bush was a popular theme in the Upper Rhine in the 15th century. A similar inspiration can be found in La Madone aux fraisiers by the Master of Paradise Garden, painted around 1420 (Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn), in a Vierge à la rose dans un jardin clos, a wood engraving dating from the 1460s, in a manuscript produced for the nuns of the Dominican convent of Unterliden in Colmar (Bibliothèque municipale, Colmar), and even in The Virgin with a Rose Bush by Stefan Lochner, painted shortly before 1450 (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne). Schongauer thus combines the motifs of the Virgin of Humility, seated on a simple wooden bench, the enclosed garden and the Rosa mystica, adopting a style clearly influenced by Flemish masters such as Rogier van der Weyden, whose works he may have frequented, if not whose studio he visited, during his stay at the University of Leipzig in 1465, but [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the flemish & northern renaissance style.

 

« Madonna of the Rose Bower » is kept at Colmar.

 

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