Sculpture
Adam
Sculpture
Details
- Author / creator
- Daniel Mauch (German, 1477–1540)
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Date or period
- c. 1535
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 18.3 × 7 × 4 cm
- Primary material
- Wood
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Hartley Bequest Fund, 1946
About this object
Mauch straddled the late medieval and Renaissance traditions in his career. These small-scale statuettes, however, each made from a single piece of boxwood, stem from the most progressive strands of Renaissance art in southern Germany, closely connected to developments in both Italian and German bronze sculpture. The bodies reveal Mauch's careful study of human anatomy as well as a rapport with Albrecht Dürer's well-known print of the same subject.
Materials and technique
Boxwood
