Word: isenheim
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...medieval art at Baltimore's Walters Gallery. His job is to locate, check and guard artistic treasures. Last fall, before Strasbourg and its vicinity had been cleared of corpses and ruins. Captain Ross found the hiding place of one of the world's greatest medieval paintings, the Isenheim Altar Screen by Matthias Grünewald. The treasure was stored in a vaulted room in Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, near Colmar, Alsace, 40 miles from Strasbourg...
...newald masterpiece is a polyptych of six hinged wood panels, each depicting scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...
...conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 6 sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Grünewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded...
...Painter") is a so-called symphony consisting of three movements written by the modern German composer, Paul Hindemith. The work comprises excerpts from Hindemith's opera of the same name which is based on the life of the sixteenth century painter, Matthias Grunewald, whose famous paintings in the Isenheim altarpiece inspired the naming of the three movements...
...Christ, suffering the torments of the martyrs--and this in the years when the Raphaels and Peruginos were turning out the sweet, peaceful solemnity of their religious paintings. The visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar, of which Stefan George wrote; nor the mystic Incarnation of the Altar, placed in a little Gothic chapel where "lines live and flame and quiver, figures twine and inter-wine, pillars shoot upward, arches swing, towers stretch and strive to heaven...