Altar of Cadolzburg

Meister des Cadolzburger Altars's Altar of Cadolzburg (1420) reflects the artistic culture of the Early Renaissance. Meister des Cadolzburger Altars brings characteristic skill to the subject, creating a work that demonstrates the range and ambition of fifteenth-century European painting. Created during the first decades of the fifteenth century, the work belongs to a period when International Gothic elegance was giving way to the naturalistic impulses that would define the Renaissance.

Executed with skilled technique and attention to careful observation, the work reveals Meister des Cadolzburger Altars's characteristic approach to composition and surface. The treatment of light and the careful modulation of color create visual richness within a unified pictorial scheme.