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Konrad Witz painted the Geneva Altarpiece in 1444 for the high altar of Saint Peter's Cathedral in Geneva, although only portions of the original ensemble survive. Its best-known panel, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, places the biblical episode in a precisely observed setting identifiable as Lake...
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Konrad Witz landmark, famous early topographical landscape and bold realism, central to Northern Renaissance studies.
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The Heilsspiegel Altarpiece is a group of panel paintings made around 1435 to 1445 and generally attributed to the Upper Rhine painter Konrad Witz. Now associated with the Kunstmuseum Basel, its surviving panels illustrate typological relationships drawn from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, or Mir...
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Important typological Basel altarpiece, scholarly value high, but less public renown and less singular artistry.
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