Sermon of St Albertus Magnus

St Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280) was a Dominican scholastic, bishop, Doctor of the Church, natural scientist, and philosopher. His greatest scholarly achievement was the introduction of Aristotelian thought to the West through the systematic paraphrasing of the entire corpus, which he began in 1449, assisted by his student Thomas Aquinas,

The panel has traditionally been attributed to Friedrich Walther. However, it was probably executed in the workshop (or artistic circle) of Friedrich Walther. The painting represents several incidents from the saint’s life, including a miraculous resuscitation of a dead child.