Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Enamel / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece / Section 14: Ascension
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 4 Kings / 4 Kings 2:11-12: Assumption of Elias / Type for the Ascension of Christ (BP, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Ascension of Christ / with 4 Kings 2:11-12: Assumption of Elias (BP, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Assumption of Elias and first miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 2) / Assumption of Elias (4 Kings 2:11) / With Eliseus dropping his mantle or Eliseus taking or holding it (4 Kings 2:12-13)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegorical cycles / Klosterneuburg Altarpiece (lower row) (1181)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Humility (Humilitas)
Virtues and Vices / Virtues / Theological / Individual / Faith (Fides)

Further details

Titulus: Helias In Cvrrv Igneo. Dinga Deo Dignvs Hvnc Ad Loca Svbvehit Ignis; at the left Fides, at the right Humilitas

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. 42

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