Niguliste Museum   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2066615B

  Author(s)

  Kurisoo, Merike

  City

  Tallinn 

  Country

  Estonia 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789949485024 

  Date of Publication

  2011 

  Publisher

  Eesti Kunstimuuseum  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  101 

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Kurisoo, Merike

  Publisher

  Eesti Kunstimuuseum  

• Description

  Catalogue of the museum St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn (Niguliste in Estonian). Bibl., ill. The church consecrated to merchants’ and seamen’s patron St Nicholas, is architectually one of the most integral and harmonious medieval churches in Estonia. The exposition comprises ecclesiastical art from 14th-20th centuries, including exquisite altarpieces and sculptures. The high altar (1478–1481) made in the workshop of Hermen Rode, the initial fragment of the famous painting "Danse Macabre" by Bernt Notke (end of the15th c.) and many others.