The Madonna and Child made for the tomb of Philibert of Chalon at Lons-le-Saunier, now Brussels CathedralJudith with the Head of Holophernes, c.1525 (alabaster); unusually, this is signed on the base.
Conrad Meit or (usual in German) Conrat Meit (1480s in Worms; 1550/1551 in Antwerp) was a German-born Late Gothic and Renaissance sculptor, who spent most of his career in the Low Countries.[1]
The royal tombs that were his largest works still had elaborate Late Gothic architectural frameworks by others, but Meit's figures were Renaissance in conception and style. Meit's work, with its delicately worked plasticity and pronounced corporality, brought an entirely new form of expression to Late Gothic church sculpture. The anatomy of his nude figures draws more from Albrecht Dürer than from classical sculpture.[2]
Later many of his works in Brussels, Antwerp, Tongerlo Abbey, and elsewhere were destroyed in the Reformation and French Revolution, leaving the three royal monuments at the then newly built Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, as his outstanding surviving large works.[3] A number of small works, including portrait busts in wood, and small statuettes in various materials have survived.[4] The documented tombs and the signed alabaster statuette of Judith (illustrated below) are the main secure works for defining his style.[5]
ConradMeit or (usual in German) Conrat Meit (1480s in Worms; 1550/1551 in Antwerp) was a German-born Late Gothic and Renaissance sculptor, who spent most...
Meit may refer to: Maydh, a city in Somalia Meit (Baradine County parish), in Wales, UK ConradMeit, sculptor Meite Mait (disambiguation) Mate (disambiguation)...
Savoy, and his mother, Margaret of Bourbon, are all buried in tombs by ConradMeit within the church, which have avoided the destruction that most royal...
Regent of the Netherlands, is also shown wearing one on her tomb by ConradMeit and in some images. Since one had to be made for her funeral, she probably...
Abbey. Pleurants of Marguerite of Bourbon, Royal Monastery of Brou, by ConradMeit. Tomb of Philippe Pot, possibly created by Antoine Le Moiturier. Tomb...
took into her service all kinds of artists, among them the sculptor ConradMeit, born in Worms, who worked in the art of portraiture and small boxwood...
overseen by members of the first rank of contemporary sculptors, including ConradMeit (d. c. 1550). Cadaver monuments first appear in the 1380s and remained...
Ferrarese – Italian painter of the Ferrara School (died 1525) 1480/1490: ConradMeit – German-born sculptor (died 1550/51) 1481: Hans Krafft the Elder, German...
Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – The Crucifixion (triptych, approximate date) ConradMeit – Judith with the head of Holofernes (alabaster) Kolman Helmschmid –...
round. These are of very high quality and include two miniature busts by ConradMeit of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, who died young before the bust was made...
other female figures such as the Vanity by Hans Memling or the Judith by ConradMeit, where the modest medieval attitude that related the nude as something...
sculptures : The Death of Adonis, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (url) ConradMeit (c. 1480 – 1550), 9 sculptures : Philibert of Savoy, British Museum,...
French), Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna Verlag, ISBN 978-3-937248-43-1. Conrad, David C.; Fisher, Humphrey J. (1982), "The conquest that never was: Ghana...
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