Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Paintings Dialogue with Modernism"

Dialogue with Modernism"

silver weight is 55 grams

the central panel decorated with a flowering vase

This is an artist proof  from a numbered edition of 75 on Arches wove paper

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Paintings Dialogue with Modernism"An exceptionally rare antique German Renaissance carving by Stephan Rottaler (1581 1533), Bavaria circa 1500. The carving is by Stephan Rottaler, Landshut, Germany, an architect who was a leading figure of Bavarian sculpture in both wood and stone at the beginning of the Renaissance, he produced altars, figures of saints and funerary sculptures. The bust displays a young boy, possibly a novitiate or monastic trainee, the bust is sensitively and finely