Saint Roch and the Angel
Medium
Limewood with traces of paint
Dimensions
Overall: 28 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (72.4 x 26 x 18.7 cm) at base: 9 x 5 3/4 in. (22.9 x 14.6 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Wood
Culture
German
Department
The Cloisters
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Cloisters Collection, 1960
Accession Number
60.126
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of early 16th-century German with *Saint Roch and the Angel a masterful limewood carving attributed to the Master of the Biberach Holy Kinship 1520. This intimate work, standing about 28½ inches tall, captures the saint—invoked for protection against plagues—alongside a comforting angel, their forms rendered with exquisite detail in the late Gothic style characteristic of Swabian workshops. Housed in The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it reflects the region's devotion to devotional art during a time of widespread epidemics. Carved from limewood, a favo...