The Master of Saint Veronica (active c. 1400 – 1420), was a German painter working in the

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style. He was active in Cologne and is known for his religious works. Master of Saint Veronica
in the RKD Nothing is known of his life, his notname is based on a painting of

Saint Veronica Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a woman from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition. A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century ''Acta Sanctorum' ...

with the Sudarium commissioned for the church of St Severin, Cologne, but now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.National Gallery biography
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, now in the

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, have been attributed to him.

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* 1380s births 1420s deaths 15th-century German painters Artists from Cologne {{Germany-painter-stub