CARVED SPLENDOR: LATE GOTHIC ALTARPIECES IN SOUTHERN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND SOUTH TIROL

From: Artforum | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Banks, Eric | Copyright information

CARVED SPLENDOR: LATE GOTHIC ALTARPIECES IN SOUTHERN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND SOUTH TIROL BY RAINER KAHSNITZ, PHOTOGRAPHS BY ACHIM BUNZ LOS ANGELES: GETTY PUBLICATIONS. 480 PAGES. $150.

What led the great sculptors of the late Gothic, Tilman Riemenschneider first among them, to abandon the use of polychromy in the elaborate sculptures that comprised the altar retables and carved crucifixes of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries? Was it a matter of economy, the unadorned limew...

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