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A revelatory study exploring wood’s many material, ecological,
and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany In
late medieval Germany, wood was a material laden with significance.
It was an important part of the local environment and economy, as
well as an object of religious devotion in and of
itself.  Gregory C. Bryda examines the multiple
meanings of wood and greenery within religious art—as a material,
as a feature of agrarian life, and as a symbol of the cross, whose
wood has resonances with other iconographies in the liturgy. Bryda
discusses how influential artists such as Matthias GrĂĽnewald,
known for the Isenheim Altarpiece, and the renowned sculptor Tilman
Riemenschneider exploited wood’s multivalent nature to connect
spiritual themes to the lived environment outside church walls.
Exploring the complex visual and material culture of the period,
this lavishly illustrated volume features works ranging from
monumental altarpieces to portable pictures and offers a fresh
understanding of how wood in art functioned to unlock the mysteries
of faith and the natural world in both liturgy and everyday life.
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