Liebieghaus (Liebieg Sculpture Museum)
This important museum, housed in an elegant 19th-century villa, displays superb sculptures of the human face and form created over a 1,500-year period. There’s an intimacy and expressiveness in some of these pieces that is both timeless and somehow elevating. Each piece is beautifully displayed, which adds to the aesthetic pleasure of a trip here.
The Liebighaus collection includes noteworthy pieces from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and from medieval and Renaissance Europe. In the medieval section, look for the 11th-century carving of the Virgin and Child created in Trier, the expressive 16th-century Madonna created by Tilman Riemenschneider, the brilliant woodcarver from Würzburg (for more on his work, and where it’s found, see chapter 7), Andrea della Robbia’s altarpiece of the Assumption, and the 16th-century Black Venus with Mirror. Give yourself at least an hour to see the major works.
This important museum, housed in an elegant 19th-century villa, displays superb sculptures of the human face and form created over a 1,500-year period. There’s an intimacy and expressiveness in some of these pieces that is both timeless and somehow elevating. Each piece is beautifully displayed, which adds to the aesthetic pleasure of a trip here.
The Liebighaus collection includes noteworthy pieces from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and from medieval and Renaissance Europe. In the medieval section, look for the 11th-century carving of the Virgin and Child created in Trier, the expressive 16th-century Madonna created by Tilman Riemenschneider, the brilliant woodcarver from Würzburg (for more on his work, and where it’s found, see chapter 7), Andrea della Robbia’s altarpiece of the Assumption, and the 16th-century Black Venus with Mirror. Give yourself at least an hour to see the major works.
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