Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Enamel / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece / Section 10: Descent from the Cross
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 3:1-6: Fall of Man / Type for the Descent from the Cross (plucking the fruit)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Gen. 3:1-6: Plucking of the forbidden fruit
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / The Serpent seduces Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:1-6) / Serpent with head of a woman

Further details

One of the later additions to the plaques of Nicolas of Verdun; Titulus: Eva Tulit de Fructv. Jnnvit Hoc Factvm Christum De Stipite Traetvm (meaning probably Tractvm); the titulus compares the plucking of the Apple to the Descent from the Cross

Artist or creator

Austrian

Date

1331

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. 28

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