DOI Artikel:
Mierzejewska, Bożena: Nubian Imagines Potestatis in the Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18949#0020
1. An unknown king with the
Virgin and Child, mural from
the apse of the cathedral,
Warsaw,
Muzeum Narodowe
(Phot. Zbigniew Doliński)
deesis gesture located in the smali apse.28 This time the Virgin is not
accompanied by the apostles but only by a saint standing behind a dark-
-skinned bishop on whose arms he put both of his hands. Although the
inscription fragment with the saint’s name was destroyed, his characteristic
face with a high forehead and copious white beard, a crown on his head as
well as the epithet “a martyr of the cross” allow us to identify him as saint
Peter. The chapel painting is in a worse condition than that in the apse but
28 K. Michałowski, Die Kathedrale..., op. cit., pp. 131-132, phot. 51, 52.
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Virgin and Child, mural from
the apse of the cathedral,
Warsaw,
Muzeum Narodowe
(Phot. Zbigniew Doliński)
deesis gesture located in the smali apse.28 This time the Virgin is not
accompanied by the apostles but only by a saint standing behind a dark-
-skinned bishop on whose arms he put both of his hands. Although the
inscription fragment with the saint’s name was destroyed, his characteristic
face with a high forehead and copious white beard, a crown on his head as
well as the epithet “a martyr of the cross” allow us to identify him as saint
Peter. The chapel painting is in a worse condition than that in the apse but
28 K. Michałowski, Die Kathedrale..., op. cit., pp. 131-132, phot. 51, 52.
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