Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Mid-Century Modern made of figured rosewood throughout

made of figured rosewood throughout and having a neoclassical pediment to the top

5lbs total The bronze bust alone (not mounted): 12

13" wide (portrait)

Cabellero Paris 1910"

12th-13th century

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Mid-Century Modern made of figured rosewood throughoutAn 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