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Bartholomäus Zeitblom (c. 1450 – c. 1519) was a
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painter, the chief master of the school of
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, where he is on official record from 1482 to 1518.


Biography

He was born in Nordlingen and was the pupil and son-in-law of Hans Schüchlein, but, unlike his master, was singularly free from
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. Zeitblom's paintings are distinguished by artistic feeling and clear, cool, delicate color. His single figures are restrained and often beautiful; his treatment of
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is simple and graceful, but he lacked dramatic power. His principal works include the altarpiece from the church at Heerberg (1497), and four panels from the Eschach altarpiece (1495), depicting "The Two Saint Johns," the " Annunciation," and " Visitation," all in the Royal Gallery, Stuttgart; the great altarpiece with "Scenes from the Passion" and the "History of St. John the Baptist," in the church at
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; four panels with the "Legend of St. Valentine," in the Augsburg Gallery; a "
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," in the Germanic Museum at
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; the "Handkerchief of St. Veronica," in the Berlin Gallery, and " St. Margaret," and " St. Ursula," in the
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Pinakhotek; the altarpiece featuring an Annunciation in the Louvre. One of his prominent pupils was the German painter
Hans Maler zu Schwaz Hans Maler zu Schwaz (1480/1488–1526/1529) was a German painter born in Ulm and active as portraitist in the village of Schwaz, near Innsbruck. Maler may have trained with the German artist Bartholomäus Zeitblom, who was chief master of the ...
.


Gallery

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Saint Barbara Saint Barbara ( grc, Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; cop, Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in t ...
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References

* * Domenico Sedini
Bartholomäus Zeitblom
online catalogu
Artgate
by
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