Following on from the paintings by the fifteenth century south German artist Friedrich Herlin which I reproduced for the Circumcision and for Epiphany last month here is his depiction of the Presentation in the Temple.
The Presentation in the Temple
Friedrich Herlin. 1462
Stadtmuseum Nördlingen
Image: Web Gallery of Art
The painting is presumably the left hand panel of a now dismantled altarpiece.
As with others of Herlin’s paintings and those of his contemporaries in the Low Countries, Germany, Austria and Iberia there is a delight and skill in depicting textiles and objects from daily life and dress which draws the viewer into his world. That world was indeed surely a more colourful and stylish world than so many people are now led to believe through cinema and other media.
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