Word: baldung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple decided to sell the canvas to make a down payment on a car, they found quite a market. Bidding at Sotheby's stopped at $537,600 for The Temptation of Eve, authenticated as one of the few existing works of the 16th century German master Hans Baldung. "Obviously," said Cattrell after the sale, "we shall be able to afford the fare back to Edinburgh...
Anxious Age. A religious mystic, Baldung made his nocturnal Nativity into a stage set dark with symbolism. In the eerie ruin, light glows from a trinity of sources: a misty moon, an angel announcing Christ's birth to a shepherd, and Jesus himself, who casts a cool white aura over Mary and Joseph...
Only 18 years after the completion of Holbein's Kaisheim altarpiece, Hans Baldung (also called Grien for his verdant tones) painted an almost surrealistic Nativity. By then, the firm order of the Middle Ages was collapsing in Germany, Martin Luther was challenging the church, and Baldung reflected the tottering universe in strange, dislocated paintings...
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