Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Enamel / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece / Section 3: Circumcision
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Circumcision of Samson / Type for the Circumcision of Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Circumcision / with Circumcision of Samson (non-biblical)
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / Conception and Birth (Jud. 13) / Circumcision of Samson (not biblical)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegorical cycles / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece (lower row) (1181)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Mercy (Misericordia)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Obedience (Oboedientia)

Further details

Titulus: Circvmcisio Samson. Misticat In Donis Is Notatis Tvm Ivssio Legis; at the left Obedientia, at the right Misericordia

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. 9

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