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Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). Great artists-Griinewald, Bellini, Duccio, Piero della Francesca-and their versions of the resurrection...
...title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
...comprehensive study of Griinewald (Abrams; $15), Critic Pevsner reproduces all that has been definitely identified as the painter's work, a mere 38 sketches and the whole or parts of ten altarpieces, including the Washington National Gallery's Crucifixion (TIME, July 18, 1955). Quite properly, 62 of the book's 143 plates are devoted to Griine-wald's twelve-paneled Isenheim altarpiece (now in Colmar's Unterlinden Museum), a work so famous it was mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles...
...Isenheim, Griinewald (real name: Mathis Gothardt Niethardt) reached a peak in his ability to give body to the high mysticism and passionate urgency of his time. He rendered the Christ crucified as a scarred and broken figure, his lifeless head pierced with grotesque thorns. The attendant figures sustain and even amplify the sense of total horror and shock. The figure of Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross is modeled on Griinewald's ideal of Nordic beauty, with wildly flowing silky blonde hair, sumptuous, rippling salmon-pink robe and veil. Griinewald has painted beauty moved to the ultimate...
...tension was there, the vitality, the technique." Working slowly through the book, he found another clue: an ex libris showing that the Bible had once been owned by one Hans Plock, master of embroidery at the court of the Archbishop of Halle. "With that," he says, "I was in Griinewald's territory, and I recognized the hand of the master." Other German experts agreed...