File:The Holy Kinship (so-called "Torgau Altarpiece") (SM 1398).png

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Torgauer Altar (1509). Städel Museum, Frankfurt

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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Torgau Altarpiece  wikidata:Q64787019 reasonator:Q64787019
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Holy Kinship Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Holy Kinship Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Holy Kinship Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Parentela di Cristo"
label QS:Lja,"トルガウアー祭壇画"
label QS:Lfr,"Retable de la Sainte Parenté"
label QS:Lde,"Torgauer Altar"
label QS:Lnl,"Heilige Maagschap"
Object type triptych / altarpiece Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description

The side and central panels describe a a great hall with blue grey walls and three-colored tiles. In the side panels are depicted the half sisters of Virgin Mary, called after their fathers Mary Cleophas (left) and Mary Salome (right) together with their husbands.
left panel: St Mary Cleophas and Alphaeus (with the features of Friedrich the Wise with their two sons, the Apostles Saint James the Less ( at her breast) and Joseph Justus, called Saint Barnabas, as annunciator of the Gospel of Matthew depicted with a book. central panel: depicts Joseph, who seems to seems to sleep, the Virgin, dressed in blue with yellow lining, Anna and the Christ Child on her knee, who is stretching out his hand towards an apple given to him by Virgin Mary. Anna's three husbands following the Golden Legend are shown in the background in the matroneum: on the left Joachim, who is attracted by the holy women in front of him and whose relation is also shown by the corresponding blue and yellow color of his dress, Cleophas (with the physiognomy and chain of Emperor Maximilian I and Salomas (eventually with the physiognomy of Sixt Oelhafen von Schöllenbach, secretary of Friedrich III., Maximilian I. and Karl V. Charles V.]]., who are talking to each other.
There is an architectural structure by a great stone bench in the foreground of the central panel with two marble columns on the sides, over which is strectched a cloth of gold. On the right column is a tablet with date and signature. The parapet of the matroneum is decorated by a sculptured frieze with dancing putti holding six escutcheons with the six fields of Electorate of Saxony. In the hall are shown the 17 members of the Holy Kinship. In the central panel are shown two more children of Mary Cleophas and Alpheus, the Apostles Simon, patron saint of weavers, dyers, tanners and saddlers and Jude, who miss ionized and suffered their martyrdom together and therefore are regularly depicted together. right panel: St Mary Salome and Zebedee (with the features of Fredericks III, Elector of Saxony brother, Herzog Johann der Beständige. St Mary Salome, dressed in gold with dark red lining is combing her son Saint James the Greater and while Saint John the Evangelist is hiding in her dress.
left outer wing: Madonna with Child, right outer wing: Saint Anne

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Depicted place Electorate of Saxony
Date 1509 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium mixed technique on lime panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions

central panel: 121.1 × 100.4 cm (47.6 × 39.5 in)

left panel: 120.5 × 45.2 × 0.5 cm (47.4 × 17.7 × 0.1 in)

right panel: 120.7 × 45.4 × 0.9 cm (47.5 × 17.8 × 0.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q163804
Accession number
1398 (Städel Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
References
Source/Photographer https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/de/werk/die-heilige-sippe-torgauer-altar
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