Flügel eines Altares: Die hl. Ursula Rückseite mit hl. Brigitta abgesägt (Inv.-Nr. 1207)

Bartholomäus Zeitblom was the leading painter in Ulm after Schongauer's death, producing altarpieces for the Swabian region through the 1490s and into the early sixteenth century. The panel depicting Saint Ursula is a wing of an altarpiece whose reverse carries Saint Brigitta of Sweden — both women saints associated with female religious life and with the late medieval cult of female holiness. Zeitblom's figures carry a distinctive Swabian solidity — broader and more grounded than the angular distortions of Schongauer's Upper Rhenish style.

Zeitblom renders Ursula in the full panoply of her martyr's attributes — the arrow, the crown, and the ermine-lined mantle — with the careful heraldic attention to detail that Swabian workshop painting demanded. His palette favours warm sienna and deep crimson, with white highlights built up in the lead-white technique standard in southern German painting.