The Musee Unterlinden's own published page on the Isenheim Altarpiece, the work it has held and displayed in Colmar since the French Revolution transferred it from the dissolved Antonite monastery. A custodian institution's own account of the physical object in its own care.
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The custodian museum's own published record of a work it physically holds and has conserved for two centuries, the same authority basis as other museum-published pages already cited on this atlas. Used here for the altarpiece's physical structure (the folding polyptych with its multiple opening states) and its present custody. NotesCited for the altarpiece's physical structure and its present custody at the Musee Unterlinden.
Citation
AuthorMusee Unterlinden curatorial staff
PublisherMusee Unterlinden, Colmar
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://www.musee-unterlinden.com/en/oeuvres/the-isenheim-altarpiece/
Source TypeMuseum
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyMusee Unterlinden, Colmar
Custodian BasisThe museum has physically held and displayed the altarpiece since it was moved there after the French Revolution dissolved the Antonite monastery at Isenheim; this is that institution's own published page about the work in its own care.
Claims Backed By This Source (27 claims)
This source backs 27 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 12 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 11 claims: 11 well-attested.
- Custodians & Museums, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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