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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Imago Pietatis: its meaning and function
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13. Imago Pietatis, Rhenish woodcut, ca 1480, London,
British Museum (after Dodgson)
a painted sarcophagus. Sorrowful (passus) Christ standing in this sarcophagus is, thus, identi-
fied with the consecrated Host preserved in the tabernacle."
In the Parish Church at Pogorzela (SiJesia) a remarkable example of the painted frame of
a wali tabernacle was discovered about 1962 (fig.16).78 The frame of the niche imitates a wali
of bricks to produce an impression of a structure really built. This effort evidently resulted
from a contemporjry conviction according to which monumentum Domini in similitudinem
fuit scissum in petra et intus lectum ubi pausavit corpus Dominicum, unde surrexit Rex gloriae
in triumphum.7a In the upper part of this frame the sarcophagus emerges with the Saviour
standing in it. With His right hand Jesus makes blood of Hispierced side flowing down to a chalice
placed upon the edge of the sarcophagus. Behind Christ the Cross is visible placed hypothetically
as well as the Weapons of the Passion. Two angels kneeling with candles at the door of the
tabernacle adore Eucharistic Christ, who is identical with the Son of the Virgin (the latter iden-
tification caused the inclusion of the scenę of the Annonciation in the upper zone of the mural).
This idea can be found in the mediaeval hymn Ave verum corpus natum de Maria rirgine vere
passum immolatum in cruce,s(i already quoted.
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British Museum (after Dodgson)
a painted sarcophagus. Sorrowful (passus) Christ standing in this sarcophagus is, thus, identi-
fied with the consecrated Host preserved in the tabernacle."
In the Parish Church at Pogorzela (SiJesia) a remarkable example of the painted frame of
a wali tabernacle was discovered about 1962 (fig.16).78 The frame of the niche imitates a wali
of bricks to produce an impression of a structure really built. This effort evidently resulted
from a contemporjry conviction according to which monumentum Domini in similitudinem
fuit scissum in petra et intus lectum ubi pausavit corpus Dominicum, unde surrexit Rex gloriae
in triumphum.7a In the upper part of this frame the sarcophagus emerges with the Saviour
standing in it. With His right hand Jesus makes blood of Hispierced side flowing down to a chalice
placed upon the edge of the sarcophagus. Behind Christ the Cross is visible placed hypothetically
as well as the Weapons of the Passion. Two angels kneeling with candles at the door of the
tabernacle adore Eucharistic Christ, who is identical with the Son of the Virgin (the latter iden-
tification caused the inclusion of the scenę of the Annonciation in the upper zone of the mural).
This idea can be found in the mediaeval hymn Ave verum corpus natum de Maria rirgine vere
passum immolatum in cruce,s(i already quoted.
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