Carved from Alabaster

Lunchtime Lecture

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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• Date Tuesday, April 04, 2023
• Time 12:00PM - 12:30PM
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The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes almost 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. Having recently completed an ambitious, multi-phase renovation and expansion project across... more

Free; ticket required

Speaker: Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art

Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries.

Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460–1531), one of the most prominent German sculptors of the 15th and 16th centuries, repeatedly worked with alabaster early in his career. In the upcoming CMA exhibition, Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster, one of Riemenschneider’s major works from the CMA’s collection is brought into dialogue with selected masterpieces from the Louvre in Paris and from North American collections to highlight the special importance of alabaster as a material in 15th-century Europe. The lecture expands on the theme of the exhibition, exploring the distinctive features and circumstances that led European patrons and artists of that time to produce sculptures made from this unique stone.

Saint Jerome and the Lion (from the Former Church of Saint Peter in Erfurt) (detail), c. 1495. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, c. 1460–1531). Alabaster; 37.8 x 28.1 x 15.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.82