Riemenschneider: Sculpting the Spirit
Neil MacGregor focuses on the supreme religious sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460-1531), whose Four Evangelists were carved from the peculiarly German medium of limewood.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the religious sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460- 1531), whose reputation as an artist has steadily risen. He is seen as a supreme sculptor, working in a peculiarly German medium, limewood, but articulating the sensibilities of a continent.
And Neil MacGregor reveals why, as the war came to an end in 1945, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann identified Riemenschneider as a moral and political hero.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
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