Die Heiligen Bartholomäus und Laurentius

The Meister von Veringen painted Saints Bartholomew and Lawrence around 1505 for the Wurth Collection. Both saints were particularly popular in the churches of the Upper Swabian and Alemannic regions where the anonymous master was active. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting. The Northern Renaissance tradition that shaped this work prized meticulous surface observation, emotional directness, and the symbolic integration of everyday objects into sacred narratives.

The panel presents the two saints with their distinctive attributes in the bright, precise style of the Swabian school, with careful rendering of their robes and instruments of martyrdom.