Saint Barbara

Unknown Austrian, Austrian

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early 15th century

Wood with polychromy, gesso and traces of gilding

Overall: 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Anton Adolph Raven, Class of 1937H

S.966.163

Geography

Place Made: Austria, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

REL 1, Patterns of Religious Experience, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013

ARTH 33, Gothic Art and Architecture, Jane Carroll, Spring 2014

ARTH 15.1, Gothic Art, Jane Carroll, Spring 2019

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020

GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020

GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021

HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021

HIST 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021

Art History 17.06, The Arts of the Middle Ages, Nick Camerlenghi, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 5-24, 1974.

Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Sara E. Trautz, Class of 2015, Mellon Special Project Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 21, 2014.

Publication History

Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, I. The New England Museums, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989, p. 346.

Sara E. Trautz, Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2014, ill. p. 3, checklist no. 9.

Provenance

Collection of Anton Adolph Raven (1895-1955, Dartmouth College Professor of English), Hanover, New Hampshire; bequeathed to present collection, 1966.

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