拍品专文
The present reliefs, which no doubt originally flanked an image of Christ on the cross, are related in style to a series of figures of apostles, also in gilt-bronze. They include a figure of St. Matthew in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich (Weihrauch, loc. cit.), figures of St. John the Evangelist and St. James the Less in the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City (Coe, loc. cit., as Florentine, 16th century), and other figures in private collections. All share comparable facial types and have extremely similar punch-marks on their draperies, and would appear to have been executed in the circle of Gerhard, the high point of whose activity in this vein was the Fugger Altar, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Baxandall, loc. cit.). Although it has been recognised that the figure of St. Matthew in Munich is a first idea for the corresponding apostle on the screen of the Fugger Chapel in St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, the original context of the remaining pieces has not been identified.