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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Debilitatio Christi: a contribution to the iconography of Christ in Distress
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17162#0110
2. Dominican Meditation, Cracow artist, 1532, Cracow, the
Convent of Discalced Carmelite Nuns
(Phot. Institute of Art PAN, Warsaw)
This text of the Franciscan author often inspired mediaeval artists and an illustration of this
Meeting of Mother and Son may be found on the two compartments of the panel of the Toruń
Altar of ca 1390 (ill. I).10
However, as early as the XIII th century another and broader version of th e Occursus Mariae
was known, related by the Franciscan scholar and writer Ubertino of Casale (1259 — c. 1330).11
Strongly influenced by Lignum Vitae of St Bonaventure he composed in 13 05 his Arbor vita&
crucifixae Jesu Christi, relying in his description of the Meeting upon an undefined text, called
by him a trustworthy story (historia fide digna).12 The text of Ubertino is to be recognized as the
most important testimony of the common opinion, which can explain the origin of the repre-
sentation of Christ in Distress:
10. From the Franciscan Church of St Mary in Toruń, now Warsaw-, National Museum.
11. Diet. <fo Theol. Cath. XV, 2, 1950 col. 2021-34, s.v.
12. Ubertinus de Cassali, Arbor vitae CTUcifixae Jesu Chrisli, Ven3zia, A. de Bonctis, 1485, 2° HC* 4551.
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Convent of Discalced Carmelite Nuns
(Phot. Institute of Art PAN, Warsaw)
This text of the Franciscan author often inspired mediaeval artists and an illustration of this
Meeting of Mother and Son may be found on the two compartments of the panel of the Toruń
Altar of ca 1390 (ill. I).10
However, as early as the XIII th century another and broader version of th e Occursus Mariae
was known, related by the Franciscan scholar and writer Ubertino of Casale (1259 — c. 1330).11
Strongly influenced by Lignum Vitae of St Bonaventure he composed in 13 05 his Arbor vita&
crucifixae Jesu Christi, relying in his description of the Meeting upon an undefined text, called
by him a trustworthy story (historia fide digna).12 The text of Ubertino is to be recognized as the
most important testimony of the common opinion, which can explain the origin of the repre-
sentation of Christ in Distress:
10. From the Franciscan Church of St Mary in Toruń, now Warsaw-, National Museum.
11. Diet. <fo Theol. Cath. XV, 2, 1950 col. 2021-34, s.v.
12. Ubertinus de Cassali, Arbor vitae CTUcifixae Jesu Chrisli, Ven3zia, A. de Bonctis, 1485, 2° HC* 4551.
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