Glossary

lime

Term · material

Wood of the lime (linden) tree, used for painted panels, above all in southern Germany, and for carving. Used for painted panels in Italy beside poplar1 and, in the Middle Ages, in the Upper Rhine and Bavaria; Albrecht Altdorfer liked it2. Wikipedia, Panel painting, “In Italy it was usually seasoned poplar, willow or linden”. ↩ Ebd., “In the Middle Ages, spruce and lime were used in the Upper Rhine and often in Bavaria” · “Lime was popular with Albrecht Altdorfer”. ↩ Literatur Wikipedia, Panel painting: Anon., Panel painting, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel_painting (zuletzt abgerufen am 28.10.2026).