This art and culture-historically important work by Peter Dell (c. 1490–1552) depicts the Mother of God and the ‘Glykophilousa’ – ‘The Sweet Kiss’ – that, according to legend, was first painted by Luke the Evangelist during the Virgin Mary’s lifetime. The sculpture is now displayed in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (the Bavarian National Museum) alongside works by Dell’s teachers Riemenschneider and Leinberger. Matthias Weniger, the curator for Sculpture and Painting before 1550, wrote on the unique theological features found in this depiction of the Virgin Mary in an article in Arsprototo, the magazine of the Kulturstiftung der Länder, 4-2017.
