DOI Artikel:
Ratkowska, Paulina: Intelligens diabolus se per Christum spolia amissurum [...], Christ before Pilate: the Panel of the Toruń Polyptych
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18949#0039
from behind Christ kneels before Pilate and takes off his cap respectfully.
A smali dog romping about at Pilate’s feet is a mediaeval attribute of high
standing, present in the Gothic art until as late as the end of the 15th century.6
An interesting feature of the Toruń representation is the devil behind the
Pilate’s throne. Caricaturally thin, with protruding, fringed ears, forked
horns, his black, flatly rendered figurę brings to mind the dark, fiat demon
sąueezing into the mouth of Judas on the stained-glass window in the Erfurt
Cathedral.7
6 Cf. for example A. Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, Berlin 1938, vol. III, fig. 41, 164,
220, 229.
' Cf. H. Goern, Die gotischen Bildfenstern im Dom zu Erfurt, Dresden 1961, fig. 66 (the
window behind the main altar).
1. Christ before Pilate,
a panel of the Toruń Polyptych,
Pelplin,
Muzeum Diecezjalne
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A smali dog romping about at Pilate’s feet is a mediaeval attribute of high
standing, present in the Gothic art until as late as the end of the 15th century.6
An interesting feature of the Toruń representation is the devil behind the
Pilate’s throne. Caricaturally thin, with protruding, fringed ears, forked
horns, his black, flatly rendered figurę brings to mind the dark, fiat demon
sąueezing into the mouth of Judas on the stained-glass window in the Erfurt
Cathedral.7
6 Cf. for example A. Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, Berlin 1938, vol. III, fig. 41, 164,
220, 229.
' Cf. H. Goern, Die gotischen Bildfenstern im Dom zu Erfurt, Dresden 1961, fig. 66 (the
window behind the main altar).
1. Christ before Pilate,
a panel of the Toruń Polyptych,
Pelplin,
Muzeum Diecezjalne
37