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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz; Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie [Mitarb.]: A Silesian relief of the annunciation in the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17160#0136
3. The Annunciation, Syriaa ivory, VIth 4. The Annunciation, West-German ivory
century, Leningrad, the Hermitage (after Xth century, Berlin, Staatliche Museen (after
La Collection M. P. Botkine) A. Goldschmidt, Die Elfenbeinskulpturen)
In the miniaturę of the manuscript in Munich, executed in 1481 by Berthold Furtmeyr21,
the main motive is again the tree of ambivalent symbolism with sad Adarn sitting at its foot.
Left side of the tree belongs to Life — the Crucifix is here hung and the Virgin is collecting
fruits from the branches to distribute these fructus vitae among the believers that kneel in
front of Her. An angel standing in the background holds a scroll with the inscription: „Ecce
panis angelorum". At the right side, which is the domain of Death a skuli is placed in foliage
and Eve is collecting from there the fructus mortis to give them to the kneeling sinners. The
skeleton of Death holds a scroll with the inscription: „Mors est malis, vita bonis".
The murals of 1479 in St George's Church in Wismar22 insert the legend of the Tree of Life
into the Gospel cycle. The central accent of the zonal composition is lignum vitae growing from
Adam's grave. On the top of the tree the Saviour is crucified bctwcen the Virgin and St John
the Evangelist standing nearby. Below, in the cup of a flower on the tree, the naked Infant
Christ lies. In the lower zone the Entombment and the Resurrection of Lord are represented
and in the bottom — the Fali togcthcr with the Distribution of the fruits by the Virgin anp
Eve.
21. Missale for the Bishop of Salzburg Bernard of Rohr, Munich, Staatsbibl. Cod. lat. 15710, fol 61v, repr. A. Meyer,
Das Bild der Kirche, Regensburg, 1962, p. 49—50, fig. 29 (the author wrongly interprets the figurę of the Virgin
aa the personification of Ecclesia); the similar representation on the miniaturę of the Bibie of John of Zytawa of ca
1420, formerly in Wrocław, Municipal Library, M 1006, fol. 3v, repr. E. Klosg, Die schlesische Buchmalerei des Mit-
telalters, Berlin, 1942, p. 211-212, fig. 176.
22. Lexikon der Marienkunde, op. cit. col. 511 gives a brief description of the mural and acknowledges the legend of
Seth as its main literary source.
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century, Leningrad, the Hermitage (after Xth century, Berlin, Staatliche Museen (after
La Collection M. P. Botkine) A. Goldschmidt, Die Elfenbeinskulpturen)
In the miniaturę of the manuscript in Munich, executed in 1481 by Berthold Furtmeyr21,
the main motive is again the tree of ambivalent symbolism with sad Adarn sitting at its foot.
Left side of the tree belongs to Life — the Crucifix is here hung and the Virgin is collecting
fruits from the branches to distribute these fructus vitae among the believers that kneel in
front of Her. An angel standing in the background holds a scroll with the inscription: „Ecce
panis angelorum". At the right side, which is the domain of Death a skuli is placed in foliage
and Eve is collecting from there the fructus mortis to give them to the kneeling sinners. The
skeleton of Death holds a scroll with the inscription: „Mors est malis, vita bonis".
The murals of 1479 in St George's Church in Wismar22 insert the legend of the Tree of Life
into the Gospel cycle. The central accent of the zonal composition is lignum vitae growing from
Adam's grave. On the top of the tree the Saviour is crucified bctwcen the Virgin and St John
the Evangelist standing nearby. Below, in the cup of a flower on the tree, the naked Infant
Christ lies. In the lower zone the Entombment and the Resurrection of Lord are represented
and in the bottom — the Fali togcthcr with the Distribution of the fruits by the Virgin anp
Eve.
21. Missale for the Bishop of Salzburg Bernard of Rohr, Munich, Staatsbibl. Cod. lat. 15710, fol 61v, repr. A. Meyer,
Das Bild der Kirche, Regensburg, 1962, p. 49—50, fig. 29 (the author wrongly interprets the figurę of the Virgin
aa the personification of Ecclesia); the similar representation on the miniaturę of the Bibie of John of Zytawa of ca
1420, formerly in Wrocław, Municipal Library, M 1006, fol. 3v, repr. E. Klosg, Die schlesische Buchmalerei des Mit-
telalters, Berlin, 1942, p. 211-212, fig. 176.
22. Lexikon der Marienkunde, op. cit. col. 511 gives a brief description of the mural and acknowledges the legend of
Seth as its main literary source.
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