A Masterly Hand / Scientia Artis 9

Roermond Historiehuis Sixteenth-century wooden head of the Christ Child on a sandstone Virgin and Child from around 1420 ensemble: 81 ≈ 26 ≈ 35 cm Lit.: Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 10. St Christopher’s Cathedral St Anne with the Virgin and Child oak, 88.5 ≈ 47 ≈ 31.5 cm Lit.: Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 7; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. Minster of Our Lady St Bernard of Clairvaux oak, with polychromy, 111 (with base, without staff) ≈ 41 ≈ 29 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 6; Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 5; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. fig. 2.3a Large part of upper bodies of various figures from an Entombment ( lower bodies completed and group possibly assembled in the nineteenth century) oak, with polychromy; Mary: 101.5 ≈ 28 ≈ 21 cm, John: 100 ≈ 27 ≈ 19 cm Lit.: Gorissen 1972: 269; Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 9; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. fig. 2.3c Marianum (choir-side figure) wood, with polychromy, c. 140 cm Lit.: Didier 1992: 143; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. Virgin and Child (‘Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vogelsangh’) oak, with polychromy, 95.5 (with non-original base) ≈ 45 ( excluding base) ≈ 37 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 3; Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 3; Sint-Truiden 1990: II.48; Didier 1992: 143; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. fig. 2.3b Schin op Geul (Valkenburg aan de Geul), St Maurice’s Church Mary and St John the Evangelist wood, with polychromy; Mary: 107 ≈ 35.5 ≈ 24 cm, John: 106.5 ≈ 34 ≈ 32 cm Lit.: Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. Stramproy (Weert), St Willibrord’s Church St Anthony Abbot oak, with polychromy, 87 ≈ 32 ≈ 26 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: 14, no. 16; Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 6; Didier 1992: 140; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. fig. 1.15 Susteren (Echt-Susteren), St Amalberga’s Church St Catherine oak, with polychromy, 87 (with non-original base) ≈ 29 ≈ 26 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 38; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. St Sebastian oak, with polychromy, 110.5 ≈ 30.5 ≈ 28 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 42; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. Swolgen (Horst aan de Maas), St Lambert’s Church St Catherine (stolen in 2007) oak, 90.5 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 28. Thorn (Maasgouw), St Michael’s Church (abbey church) Marianum oak Lit.: Horst 1974: 10, 16, 20 (fig. 32); Sint-Truiden 1990: II.43, II.48, II.56; Didier 1992: 143; Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. fig. 1.3 Mary and St John the Evangelist wood, with traces of old polychromy Lit.: Janssen, Te Poel and Schäfer 2001. Uden, Museum voor Religieuze Kunst St Birgitta, inv. MRK 017 oak, 102 cm on permanent loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 2; Uden 1999: no. 79. Mary and St John the Evangelist oak, with polychromy; Mary: 103 cm, John: 100 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: 17, 21 (fig. 36); Uden 1999: 51, 80, 163. Utrecht, Museum Catharijneconvent Apostle James the Great (?), inv. ABM bh292 oak, 68.7 ≈ 28.6 ≈ 19.2 cm fig. 1.17d Apostle Judas Thaddeus (?), inv. ABM bh291 oak, 68.7 ≈ 26.4 ≈ 20.8 cm figs. 1.17c , 8.7 Apostle Matthew (?), inv. ABM bh289 oak, 71.4 ≈ 24.8 ≈ 18.8 cm figs. 1.17b, 8.4c-d Christ the Saviour, inv. ABM bh290 oak, 68.2 ≈ 26.7 ≈ 20.8 cm fig. 1.17a Lit. on all four statues: Horst 1974: 14, 10 (fig. 4), 18 (fig. 27); Horst 1974 (supplementary catalogue): no. 1a-d; Sint-Truiden 1990: II.47; Didier 1992: 136, 140, 143, 145, 147; Van Vlierden 2004: 358-361. Marianum, inv. ABM bh606 oak, 257 ≈ 145 ≈ 57.5 cm Lit.: Horst 1974: 16; Van Vlierden 2004: 354-356. Venlo Limburgs Museum St Dymphna, inv. 800 BM oak, with polychromy, 81 cm on permanent loan from St Michael’s Church, Wanssum Lit.: Horst 1974: no. 29; Sint-Truiden 1990: II.59. fig. 1.25