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Koch, \"Martin Schongauer's 'Christ Bearing the Cross'\", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>14, no. 2 (1955): 22<span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: TisaWebPro, \"Times Roman\", Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>–</span>30., fig. 1, p. 24 (illus.)","date":1955,"id":7811,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774289"},{"boilertext":"\"Catalogue of the Exhibition\" and \"Plates,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Art Musuem </em>30, no. 2 (1971): 29-60","citation":"\"Catalogue of the Exhibition\" and \"Plates,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Art Musuem </em>30, no. 2 (1971): 29-60, p. 32, no. 34, p. 53 (illus.)","date":1971,"id":6221,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774469"},{"boilertext":"<P class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-add-space: auto\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"'>F.W.H. Hollstein, “Schongauer,” <I>German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700</I> (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1999). <?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>","citation":"<P class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-add-space: auto\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"'>F.W.H. Hollstein, “Schongauer,” <I>German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700</I> (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1999). <?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>, no. 9","date":1999,"id":6599,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/519239"},{"boilertext":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"'>Adam vom Bartsch, \"Volume 6,\" <I>Le peintre graveur ... </I>(Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>","citation":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"'>Adam vom Bartsch, \"Volume 6,\" <I>Le peintre graveur ... </I>(Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>, no. 21, p. 128","date":1808,"id":6498,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/682354769"},{"boilertext":"Robert A. Koch, \"A Gothic sculpture of the Ascending Christ\", <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 19, no. 1 (1960): p. 37-43.","citation":"Robert A. 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Considered Schongauer’s masterpiece, this narrative scene of the Road to Calvary shows Christ’s face in the form in which it was transferred, miraculously, to the veil offered to him by Saint Veronica. This icon, based on the veil (now a relic housed at Saint Peter’s, Rome), is called a <I>sudarium</I> and can be seen in Dürer’s engraving (below), where it is held by two angels. The dramatic tension in Schongauer’s composition derives from the contrast between Christ’s calm and direct gaze, as he bears the weight of the heavy cross, and the averted eyes of his agitated tormenters.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"K1-3 rotation"}],"datebegin":1475,"sortnumber":"1951  120x","published_date":"2026-02-11 08:20:35.999008","objectid":8812,"dimensions":"plate (sheet trimmed to plate): 28.9 × 43.2 cm (11 3/8 × 17 in.)","on_view":false}