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The Virgin Crowned by Angels
About the Artwork
Two angels, barely visible against a dark background, crown Mary as the Queen of Heaven. Her slight features are made more substantial by her elaborately draped, brilliant crimson mantle. Holding the Christ child, she stands on a floor scattered with red and white roses, symbols of her purity. Green palmettes enriched with costly gold thread decorate the velvet. Since silk velvet was not woven in the north, Italian velvets were frequently depicted in northern paintings during the 1400s. Lochner is thought to have come from Meersburg in southwest Germany, and is recorded as being in Cologne by 1442, where he was paid for decorations in connection with the celebration of the visit of Emperor Frederick III. He was elected town councillor by the painters’ guild in 1447 and 1450. There are no records of him after 1451.
Exhibition history
Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). Stefan Lochner: Meister zu Köln. Wallraf-Richartz Museum (organizer) (December 2, 1993-March 13, 1994). Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004). From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530. Groeningemuseum, Stedelijke Musea, Brugge, Belgium (October 28, 2010-January 30, 2011).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Stefan Lochner (German, 1400-c. 1452)
- Date
- c. 1450
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 68.5 x 47.5 x 7.5 cm (26 15/16 x 18 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 50.5 x 29.2 cm (19 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1968.20
Provenance
Kuno Kocherthaler, Berlin, Germany -1968: (Pinakos, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1968-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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