Martin Gayford

Is this the greatest sculpted version of the Easter story? It’s certainly the strangest

Martin Gayford urges you to make a pilgrimage to Rothenburg ob der Tauber to see Tilman Riemenschneider’s limewood masterpiece

Detail from the great and strange Altar of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider at the Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

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