Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece the outer panels next to a Crucifixion and have been identified by their coats of arms. When opened the Stauffenberg altarpiece shows, from left to right, the Annunciation, the Descent from the Cross and the Nativity — two joys of Mary framing one of her sorrows. It was kept in the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim near Colmar for which Matthias Grünewald subsequently painted his Isenheim Altarpiece. Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece The Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece () is a 15th-century Anonymous Master from Alsace or nearby who was stylistically influenced by Rogier van der Weyden. His name
Maestà The most famous example of the "Maestà" is the "Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints", an altarpiece comprising many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting was installed in the city's cathedral on June 9, 1311. Although it took a generation for its effect truly to be felt, Duccio's "Maestà" set Italian painting on a course leading away from the hieratic representations of Byzantine art towards more direct presentations of reality. Creating this altarpiece assembled from many wood panels bonded together before painting was an arduous undertaking. The