Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold with a cobalt blue background

with a cobalt blue background

they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl

a rare & important piece of Americana

he left Paris and settled in Sardañola (Barcelona)

and listed as Item number 18 on page 56

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold with a cobalt blue backgroundAn exceptionally rare antique German Renaissance carving by Stephan Rottaler (1581 1533), Bavaria circa 1500. The carving is by Stephan Rottaler, Landshut, Germany, an architect who was a leading figure of Bavarian sculpture in both wood and stone at the beginning of the Renaissance, he produced altars, figures of saints and funerary sculptures. The bust displays a young boy, possibly a novitiate or monastic trainee, the bust is sensitively and finely