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Article
Counter-Reformation ambers: Friedrich Schmidt’s workshop in Kretinga, Lithuania
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 839-853
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kulka, Rahul (kulka, Rahul)
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1. Altar, by Friedrich Schmidt. 1678. Amber, ivory, wood, glass, silver and parchment, 29 by 20.7 by 16.5 cm. (Altonaer Museum, Hamburg; © SHMH-Altonaer Museum, permanent loan from the Federal Republic of Germany).
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10. Detail of the altar in Fig.1, showing an ivory panel carved with a kneeling saint.
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11. Detail of the casket in Figs.13 and 14, showing an ivory panel carved with the Annunciation.
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12. Detail of the altar in Fig.1, showing an ivory panel carved with the Annunciation.
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13 and 14. Casket of St Casimir (Cassetta di San Casimiro), by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. 1678. Amber, ivory, glass, wood and silver, 35.5 by 58 by 20 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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15 and 16. Small altar with Crucifixion group, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. 1677–78. Amber, ivory, glass and wood, height 59 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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17 and 18. Large altar with Crucifixion group, by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass and wood, height 136 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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19. Detail of the altar in Figs.17–18.
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2. The rear of the altar illustrated in Fig.1 .
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20. Candlestick, one of a small-sized pair, by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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21. Candlestick, one of a medium-sized pair, by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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22. Altar with Crucifixion group, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt, c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood, height 78 cm. (Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden; from A. Rohde: Bernstein: Ein deutscher Werkstoff, Berlin 1937, fig.214).
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23 and 24. Reliquary by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass, wood and silver, 32 by 49.5 by 24.2 cm. (Convento di Santa Chiara, Naples; photograph © Marco Pedicini, courtesy the Central Directorate for Religious Affairs and for the Administration of the Fondo Edifici di Culto of the Ministry of the Interior).
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25. Candlestick, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood, height 28 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte).
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26. Altar, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass and wood, height 31 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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27. Detail of the altar in Fig.28, showing a verre églomisé panel from the right side.
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28. St Casimir, by the Władysław Łazarski printing house. Early 20th-century reprint of an 18th-century woodblock print, 34 by 24 cm. (Częstochowa Museum; © Muzeum Częstochowskiego).
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29. Detail of the top of the altar in Fig.26.
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3. The interior of the altar illustrated in Fig.1.
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4. Detail of the altar illustrated in Fig.1, showing a verre églomisé panel.
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5. Detail of the altar illustrated in Fig.1, showing the inscription on the book.
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6 and 7. Details of an altar with Crucifixion group, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass and silver, height 45 cm. (© Muzeum Bursztynu, Malbork; on permanent loan from Muzeum Okręgowe, Tarnów).
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8. Altar, attributed to the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. After 1678. Amber, ivory and wood, 53 by 36 by 23 cm. (Ostpreussisches Landesmuseum, Lüneburg; © Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum Lüneburg, Deutschbaltische Abteilung).
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9. Detail of the left side of the casket in Figs.13 and 14.
Article
Rethinking ‘the oldest surviving amber in the West’
11/2013 | 1328 | 155
Pages: 756-762
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Author:
King, Rachel (King, Rachel)
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12. Der goldener Tafel, illustration in M.S. Hosmann: Fürtreffliches Denck-Mahl, Leipzig 1700
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11. Enthroned Virgin. Prussia, c.1400. Amber (Kestner Museum, Hannover)
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13. Nativity. Possibly Königsberg or Marienburg. c.1400. Amber (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sammlungen Schloss Ambras, Vienna/Innsbruck)
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14. Chandelier with St Catherine. Possibly Königsberg or Marienburg, c.1400 (Mestké Muzéum, Bratislava)
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15. Front and back of mounted Vera icon. Bruges or Königsberg, 1380-1400 (Bayerisches nationalmuseum, Munich)
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16. Mounted Vera icon. Bruges or Königsberg, 1380-1400 (Wallace Collection, London)
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17. Vera icon. Bruges or Königsberg, 1380-1400. Amber (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Book Review
Bernsteinkunst aus dem Grünen Gewölbe
06/2006 | 1239 | 148
Pages: 423-424
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Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
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Bernsteinkunst aus dem Grünen Gewölbe | author: Kappel, Jutta
Book Review
Bernstein für Thron und Altar. Das Gold des Meeres in Fürstlichen Kunst- und Schatzkammern
06/2006 | 1239 | 148
Pages: 423-424
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Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
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Bernstein für Thron und Altar. Das Gold des Meeres in Fürstlichen Kunst- und Schatzkammern | editor: Seipel, Wilfried
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61. Left: Lucretia (or Dido), by Christoph Maucher. c.1690–1700. Amber and silver gilt, 21.8 cm. high; right: Cleopatra, by Christoph Maucher. c.1690–1700. Amber and silver gilt, 22 cm. high. (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Book Review
Bernstein
07/1938 | 424 | 73
Pages: 40
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Longhurst, Margaret H. (Longhurst, Margaret H.; Longhurst, M. H.; Longhurst, M.; Longhurst, Margaret)
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Bernstein | author: Rohde, A. , author: Williamson, George C.
Book Review
The Book of Amber
08/1933 | 365 | 63
Pages: 93-94
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M., D. (M., D.)
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The Book of Amber | author: Williamson, George C.