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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Some iconographical notes on the Maiestas Domini
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9. Wrocław, The Abbey of Our Lady and St Yincent, the tympanum
of Isaiah: "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow
out of his roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him (= Christ), the spirit of wisdom
and the understanding..."71.
The earliest example which may be cited here is a fragment of a relief in the Lincoln Cathcdral
(fig. 8)72. Jesus is here represented in the state foretold by the Prophet i.e. as Messiah, anointed
by the Holy Ghost (sub specie columbae, standing in profile on the mandorla), enthroned in ma-
jesty, sińce he holds the throne of David which grows directly from the Tree of Jesse.
The second example may be found in the Cistercian manuscript of the Vita Sanctorum from
Citeaux7:i. The four prefigurations of the Nativity of Christ (Daniel among the Lions, Three
Adolescents in the Furnace, the Burning Bush, the Gedeon's Fleet) surround the enthroned
Virgin Mary with the Child with the inscription Theotokos. The Dove points to the divine Child-
hood.
To add the finał arguments to the justification of the presence of only two Evangelists on
the Strzelno tympanum, it should be recalled here that Mark begins his Gospel with the ąuotation
71. Book of Isaiah, XI, 1; sec A. Thomas: Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographie, IV, col. 549—558 s.v. Wurzel Jesse.
72. G. Zarnecki, Roman£sque Sculplurc al Lincoln Cathcdral n.d. pl. 22a juxtaposed with the miniaturę in the Shaftesbury
Psalter, British Museum, Ms, Landsdowne 383, fol. 45v (herc the position of the Dove is different).
73. Dijon, Bibl. Municipale Ms 641, fol. 40v, ca 1110—20; see Art Bullctin, VII, fig. 30; Schiller, Ikonographie, I, op. cii.,
p. 27, fig. 26.
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of Isaiah: "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow
out of his roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him (= Christ), the spirit of wisdom
and the understanding..."71.
The earliest example which may be cited here is a fragment of a relief in the Lincoln Cathcdral
(fig. 8)72. Jesus is here represented in the state foretold by the Prophet i.e. as Messiah, anointed
by the Holy Ghost (sub specie columbae, standing in profile on the mandorla), enthroned in ma-
jesty, sińce he holds the throne of David which grows directly from the Tree of Jesse.
The second example may be found in the Cistercian manuscript of the Vita Sanctorum from
Citeaux7:i. The four prefigurations of the Nativity of Christ (Daniel among the Lions, Three
Adolescents in the Furnace, the Burning Bush, the Gedeon's Fleet) surround the enthroned
Virgin Mary with the Child with the inscription Theotokos. The Dove points to the divine Child-
hood.
To add the finał arguments to the justification of the presence of only two Evangelists on
the Strzelno tympanum, it should be recalled here that Mark begins his Gospel with the ąuotation
71. Book of Isaiah, XI, 1; sec A. Thomas: Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographie, IV, col. 549—558 s.v. Wurzel Jesse.
72. G. Zarnecki, Roman£sque Sculplurc al Lincoln Cathcdral n.d. pl. 22a juxtaposed with the miniaturę in the Shaftesbury
Psalter, British Museum, Ms, Landsdowne 383, fol. 45v (herc the position of the Dove is different).
73. Dijon, Bibl. Municipale Ms 641, fol. 40v, ca 1110—20; see Art Bullctin, VII, fig. 30; Schiller, Ikonographie, I, op. cii.,
p. 27, fig. 26.
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