Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Enamel / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece / Section 2: Nativity
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Jeremias / Jer. 31:22: Femina circumdabit virum / Prophecy for the Nativity
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Nativity / with Gen. 21:3: Birth of Isaac
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Nativity / with Jud. 13:24: Birth of Samson
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Nativity / with Jer. 31:22: Femina circumdabit virum
Old Testament / Exodus / Moses: single figure
Life of Christ / Infancy / Nativity / Immediate family and angels

Further details

Titulus: Nativitas Domini. Nascitvr Absqve Patre Deus Infans Virgine Matre; at the left Jeremiah with Jer. 31:22 (Femina circumdabit virum), at the right Moses with Omnis Mascv, probably relating to Gen. 17:10 (circumcidetur ex vobis omne masculinum), for the Circumcision in the next image

Artist or creator

Nicholas of Verdun (active 1181-1205)

Date

1181

Location

Klosterneuburg, Stiftsmuseum

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Karl Drexler and Thomas Strommer, Der Verduner Altar. Ein Emailwerk des XII. Jahrhunderts im Stifte Klosterneuburg bei Wien, Vienna 1903, pl. 5

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