Tilman Riemenschneider
St. Lawrence

Germany, 1502-1510
Lindenwood with polychromy and gilding, 3 feet tall (91.4 cm.)
Cleveland Museum of Art

As usual, St. Lawrence is pictured as a young man, perhaps because of his subordinate role as a deacon. He wears a sleeved "dalmatic," the vestment worn at Mass by deacons, over an alb. His left hand holds his attribute, a gridiron.

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Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art