Altarflügel: Hl. Dominikus (?)

Hans Burgkmair the Elder painted this altarpiece wing of Saint Dominic around 1510, depicting the founder of the Dominican order in his characteristic black and white habit with the book and star that identified him iconographically. Burgkmair's saint panels for altarpiece programs demonstrate his ability to give conventional sacred figures an individual dignity and spiritual presence that transcended the formulaic. Saint Dominic was the patron of the Dominican order, whose network of preaching friars and intellectual institutions had profound influence on European religious and intellectual culture, and his image appeared in Dominican churches and houses across the Catholic world. Burgkmair's warm palette and confident figure construction give the founder both institutional identity—his habit immediately recognizable—and personal spiritual authority.

The saint is depicted on the altarpiece wing with his traditional Dominican habit and attributes. Burgkmair's synthesis of German precision and Italian monumentality gives the figure a commanding presence.