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The Creglingen Altarpiece is an unpainted limewood retable attributed to Tilman Riemenschneider and generally dated to the early sixteenth century. Installed in the Herrgottskirche near Creglingen, Germany, its central shrine represents the Assumption of the Virgin, surrounded by apostles and framed...
The Holy Blood Altar is a carved limewood retable made by Tilman Riemenschneider around 1499 to 1505 for St. James's Church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany. Its shrine houses a relic associated with the Holy Blood and centers visually on the Last Supper, with Judas positioned prominently before...
The Detwang Altarpiece is a carved wooden Passion altarpiece associated with Tilman Riemenschneider and preserved in the Church of St. Peter and Paul at Detwang, near Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Created in the early sixteenth century, it incorporates a central Crucifixion scene flanked by reliefs conn...
The Münnerstadt Altarpiece is a late Gothic carved altarpiece created by Tilman Riemenschneider around 1490 to 1492 for the parish church at Münnerstadt in Germany. Its program included expressive limewood figures and narrative reliefs associated with Saint Mary Magdalene. Parts of the original ense...
Late Gothic carved altarpiece depicting the Twelve Apostles, from the church of St. Kilian in Bad Windsheim, Germany, a notable example of south German wood sculpture.
