Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Paintings 5" wide X 39" tall

5" wide X 39" tall X 13

the central panel decorated with a flowering vase

Dialogue with Modernism"

these are flanked with rope twist columns surmounted with Corinthian capitals

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Paintings 5" wide X 39" tallAn exceptionally rare antique German Renaissance carving by Stephan Rottaler (1581 1533), Bavaria circa 1500. The carving is by Stephan Rottaler, Landshut, Germany, an architect who was a leading figure of Bavarian sculpture in both wood and stone at the beginning of the Renaissance, he produced altars, figures of saints and funerary sculptures. The bust displays a young boy, possibly a novitiate or monastic trainee, the bust is sensitively and finely