Altar of the Christian Faith

1561

Hermann tom Ring

Associated Names
Hermann tom Ring

Artist, German, 1521 - 1597

This is a drawing of an ornate diptych with two sculpted portraits on two vertical panels with arch-shaped tops. Each panel features a sculpted portrait of a figure in a classical style, possibly representing allegorical or religious figures. The left panel shows a bearded figure with an intense expression holding an object that resembles a scroll or tablet. The right panel features a figure holding a chalice. Both figures have intricate script written upon the objects they hold. Inscriptions below each figure are framed by ornate scrollwork. The base and top of the panels include additional script resembling passages written in old manuscripts.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash and blue watercolor on laid paper mounted and folded to form miniature design for a triptych alterpiece; script in pen and brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 20.3 x 12.5 cm (8 x 4 15/16 in.)
    support: 23 x 15.5 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1990.32.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • die Maler tom Ring, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, 1996, no. 63, repro.

Bibliography

1996

  • Lorenz, Angelika. Die Maler tom Ring. Exh. cat. 2 vols. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, 1996, I: 53-56, 67; II: 234, 362, 586, no. 63.

Inscriptions

on middle panel, lower left in black ink: ANNO / 1561; lower right in black ink: [artist's monogram]; across left side of central panel in pen and ink: DE TEIN / GEBODE GODES / Du schalt nyne ander / Godde beneuen my hebben / du schalt dy myne Belder / noch eynige gelijckenysse / macken, noch des datt dar / bouen ym Hemmel, noch / des dat dar nedden op der / Eerden, odder des dat ym / Water under der Eerden is. Bedde se nycht ann / und deyne enn nychtt. / Du schalst de namen / des Heren dynes Goddes / nicht vergeues voerenn / Gedencke des Sabbatt / daeges. Dat du ennee / hillygest.; across right side of central panel in pen and ink: EXOD. 22 / DEVTEREN. 5. / Du schalst dine Vader un; SEE COMMENTARY FOR REST

Wikidata ID

Q64574230

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