Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Enamel / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece / Section 12: Harrowing of Hell
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 14:5-6: Samson kills the lion / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (BP, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Jud. 14:5-6: Samson kills the lion (BP, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / Samson and the Lion (Jud. 14:5-8) / Samson kills the lion (Jud. 14:5-6)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegorical cycles / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece (lower row) (1181)
Virtues and Vices / Virtues / Cardinal / Individual / Justice / Single figure
Virtues and Vices / Virtues / Cardinal / Individual / Fortitude / Single figure

Further details

Titulus: Samson Cvm Leone. Vir Gerit Iste Tvam Leo Martis Christe Figuram; at the left Fortitudo, at the right Iustitia

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. 36

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