Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Enamel / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece / Section 11: Entombment
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Cantica Canticorum / Cant. 5:2: Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat / Prophecy for the Entombment of Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Osee / Osee 13:14: Ero mors tua, o mors / Prophecy for the Harrowing of Hell
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern (BP, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Cant. 5:2: Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Jon. 1:15-2:1: Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster (BP, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Os. 13:14: Ero mors tua, o mors
Life of Christ / Passion / Entombment / Christ's body lowered into the sarcophagus

Further details

Titulus: Sepvlcrvm Domini. Terre Vita Datvr Cvi Terra Polvs Famvlatvr; at the left Salomon with Cant. 5:2 (Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat), at the right Osee with Os. 13:14 (Ero mors tua, o mors), referring to the Harrowing of Hell on the following plaque

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. 32

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