Relief of Saint Lawrence Presenting the Poor

Master of the Sonnenberg-Künigl Altar

ca. 1490 · White or stone pine, paint, gilt · The Cloisters

St. Lawrence is portrayed presenting the poor as the true wealth of the Church. This panel and another in Munich come from a large now-dismantled altarpiece dedicated to the saint. The anonymous master of this work is named after another altarpiece commissioned by the abbess Barbara Künigl for the convent church at Sonnenberg. He appears to have been a pupil of Michael Pacher, the leading Tirolean painter and sculptor of the period, and to have been active in Bruneck, in the South Tirol.

Artist

Master of the Sonnenberg-Künigl Altar

Date

ca. 1490

Medium

White or stone pine, paint, gilt

Culture

Austrian

Department

The Cloisters

Credit line

The Cloisters Collection, 1955