_The Master of the Lyversberg Passion_ (German:
died about 1490).
A picture by the unknown painter of a series of Passion
pictures, formerly belonging to Herr Lyversberg of Cologne,
but now in the Museum of the city. He painted also a series
of eight subjects from the Life of Mary. Of these six are in
the Pinacothek at Munich, a seventh is in the German Museum at
Nuremberg, and our picture is the eighth.
Characteristic of the German School after the Flemish influence. The
sky background is gilt as in the old German pictures, but the types of
the figures are Flemish. Notice the quaint pointed shoes, and the touch
of realism in making the foot of Simeon, as he advances to receive the
child from its mother, come half out of his slipper.