Comments on: Matthias Grünewald

By: Edrina

Edrina — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:02:33 +0000

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By: Francesca Rheannon

Francesca Rheannon — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:59:24 +0000

Matthias GrÃ¼newald’s real name was Mathis Gothart Nithart, not Joachim von Sandrart. Sandrart wrote about GrÃ¼newald in his “German Academy” of 1675, whereas GrÃ¼newald died in 1528.

By: Jeff Hayes

Jeff Hayes — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:40:15 +0000

This is one of those paintings I could (and probably should) spend all day looking at. It’s sort of trivia, but GrÃ¼newald is the main character in the opera Mathis der Mahler (Matthias the Painter) by the 20th century composer Paul Hindemith, who supposedly drew inspiration from the Isenheim Alterpiece. The opera itself is rarely performed, but the symphony that he extracted from it is one of the great modern orchestral scores.