Hl. Thomas (Innenseite) und hl. Silvester (Außenseite)

Marx Reichlich created these double-sided panels of Saint Thomas on the interior and Saint Silvester on the exterior around 1498. The altarpiece wing format, revealing different saints when opened and closed, was standard in South Tyrolean and Austrian churches. Reichlich's commissions document the artistic needs of the numerous parish churches in the region. 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 with solid figure drawing in the post-Pacher Tyrolean tradition. The saints are rendered with iconographic clarity and characteristic Alpine painting technique.