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 / Josue / Jos. 8:29: Josue commands to take down the body of the King of Ai from the gibbet / Type for the Deposition of Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Jos. 8:29: Josue commands to take down the body of the king of Ai from the gibbet
Old Testament / Josue (A.V. Joshua) / The Conquest of Jericho and Ai (Jos. 5:13-8:29) / Joshua commands that the body of the King of Ai be taken down (Jos. 8:29)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegorical cycles / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece (lower row) (1181)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Sobrietas (Sobriety)
Virtues and Vices / Virtues / Cardinal / Individual / Prudence / Single figure

Further details

One of the later additions to the plaques of Nicolas of Verdun; Titulus: Deposicio Regis Iericho. Secvndvm Legem Deponit Vesperre Regem; at the left Prudentia, at the right Sobrietas

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. 30

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