Hl. Margarete (Innenseite) und Hl. Panthaleon (Außenseite)

Friedrich Pacher created these double-sided panels of Saint Margaret on the interior and Saint Panthaleon on the exterior around 1490 for a Tyrolean altarpiece. Margaret, the dragon-slaying virgin martyr, was one of the most widely venerated female saints in medieval Europe, particularly popular as a patron of childbirth. This work belongs to the High Renaissance, when the innovations of the preceding century were synthesized into works of monumental clarity and ideal beauty. The period's defining aesthetic — balanced composition, idealized figures, unified atmospheric space — was developed above all in Florence and Rome before spreading across Italy and Europe.

Oil on both sides of the panel in the South Tyrolean manner. The saints are rendered with clear iconographic attributes and competent figure drawing inherited from the Pacher workshop tradition.