St. Sylvester

ca. 1510 - ca. 1520 · Sculpture · 103 × 32 cm

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

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About the sculpture

This carved limewood figure of a pope shows Saint Sylvester and was made by an unknown artist in the area of the Middle Rhine, perhaps in Mainz, in ca. 1510-1520. The sculpture probably formed part of the shrine or corpus of a larger altarpiece.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Particulars

Accession number: A.56-1978

What it shows

St. Sylvester

In the catalog

Middle Rhine

Sources

Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
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St. Sylvester

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

About the sculpture

Particulars

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources