Matthias Grünewald's paintings are masterpieces of the late Gothic era. After four years of work, experts have restored the painter's famous Isenheim Altarpiece to its former glory. To renovate the ...

Matthias Grünewald, “Isenheim Altarpiece” (c. 1509–15), oil on panel, 105 9/10 inches x 10 feet, held at the Unterlinden Museum, Alsace (image via Wikimedia Commons) Nits and fleas bedeviled the ...

Seven years after halting an unorthodox restoration of the Isenheim Altarpiece, French conservators have resumed work on the celebrated northern Renaissance polyptych in the hope of getting it right ...

For centuries, a medieval Dominican convent in Colmar—Alsace’s third city after Strasbourg and Mulhouse—hid its secrets from the world in the courtyard behind its walls. In the the mid-19th century, ...

The Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, near the German border in northeastern France, sits at the end of many an art pilgrimage to a spectacular work: the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16) by Matthias Grünewald ...

The Isenheim altarpiece was painted by the German artist Matthias Grünewald between 1512 and 1516 for the hospital chapel of St Anthony's monastery in Isenheim, near Colmar (then in Germany). The ...

Museum director Pantxika De Paepa is more than happy with the results: "Apart from the original beauty, you can now also see the interplay between the panels and the sculptures," she told DW. The ...