Saturday, July 22, 2023

Colmar's Unterlinden Museum: Other Stuff

It's really a fine city/regional museum, and we probably didn't do justice to its many other 15th and 16th century holdings. In addition to the paintings, there are numerous objects and collections of everyday life, household, weapons, viticulture, and so on, from neolithic times through the Romans and up through the early 20th century. We sorted of flitted around, too, trying to avoid the larger tour bus groups. 

In the old convent's cloister

"Swing and a miss"--not; alas, part of a quadriptych
of martyrs whose name I did not get; note Medieval
codpiece

Bergheim Altarpiece, attributed to Veit Wagner, late 15th, after an
engraving by Durer

In the household collections 

Beautiful 1647 harpsichord

Beautiful stove

Signage and bells

Fireplace backs

Don't lose the key

Circumcision, attributed to Ludwig Schongauer,
15th

Part of a whole room of Martin Schongauers and company

Resurrection series

Moving right along, this is the famous 3rd century local Roman floor
mosaic that was the core of the original museum's collection

Neolithic stuff

Marriage at Cana, German School, c. 1500

Portrait of a Lady, Holbein the Elder, early 16th

Cranach's Melancholia, after a Durer drawing; said to
be France's only Cranach; of course, Colmar was not in
France when Cranach painted it

Viticulture collection, including some barrels larger than our
camper

Celtic collection, including some nice gold

Rembrandt, Not a Self-Portrait, 1665

Gustave Dore, The Angel of Tobias, mid-19th

Monet, Valley of the Creuse, Sunset, 1889

And finally, Roault, his De Profundis, 1939



1 comment:

Tawana said...

The locking mechanism on that trunk is awesome.