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047 Relief of the Crucifixion

Augsburg (?), Munich (?), late 15th-early 16th c. 

This plaque was donated to Vilnius Cathedral in 1817 by a famous Lithuanian educator and philanthropist Count Povilas Ksaveras Bžostovskis. Previously it may have been a part of a small altar for personal piety, which the count brought back from travels in Europe. The composition of the relief of the plaquette and the rendering of the figures is typical of early Renaissance of Central Europe, though the influence of Italian art of that period can also be noticed. It is set in a Classicist frame adapted for the image in the early 19th century.