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| Abstract: | The fragments 'The Twelve Apostles and St. John the Baptist' of the medieval collection of the Anger Museum in Erfurt are derived from a no longer existing altarpiece, whose origins can be dated in the period 1510-1530. The artist or the workshop of the altarpiece is not known. The object history could be traced back to the second half of the 19th century on the basis of historical documents. It was established as part of this Bachelor-Thesis, that the figures of the fragments were once positioned in two rows one upon the other and that the panels of the altarpiece were sawed horizontally into two halves during a previous restoration. Five panel-halves were sawed in addition to a weekday side and a festive side. It was determined for the first time that the separation of the last board fragment was carried out between 1911 and 1924. Three panel halves had escaped the separation. Two panel halves (John and James Major) with rear tendril-painting could be determined as an entity in the centre of the altarpiece. The other ten fragments were identified as belonging to pairs of either weekday or festive side. On the basis of circumstantial evidence, the panels were assigned to the wings of the altarpiece and reassembled according to the original order. In terms of the model thus developed, the altarpiece is missing in addition to the central panel a border panel in the middle part, a whole panel of the right wing and the festive side of Simon. After the partition into weekday and festive side, the fragments were individually fixed in plate frames. In a later restoration-phase of these plate frames, two repaintings and a transferral of the framed fragments into a second framing were carried out. On the basis of the fragments, three presumptive revision phases were detected. They altered some areas of design and the visual perception significantly. |
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