Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Biblia Pauperum / Western Group / art Blockbook
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 37:29: Ruben finds the cistern empty / Type for the Holy women at the sepulchre
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Cantica Canticorum / Cant. 3:2: Bride searching for her beloved / Type for the Holy Women at the sepulchre
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / The holy women at the sepulchre
Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Ruben finds the well empty (Gen. 37:29)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / The Bride seeking her beloved (Cant. 3:2)
Life of Christ / After the Passion / Resurrection / Visitors to the empty Sepulchre / The Holy women / With an angel

Further details

Inscriptions: Isa. 55:6: Quaerite Dominum dum inveniri potest; invocate eum dum prope est; Gen. 49:18: Salutare tuum expectabo, Domine; Mich. 7:7: Ego autem ad Dominum aspiciam; exspectabo Deum, salvatorem meum; Psalm 104:3: Laetetur cor quaerentium Dominum

Artist or creator

Netherlandish

Date

1480 - 1485

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Xylo-5

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Biblia Pauperum (50-part Blockbook).

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Heitz and W. L. Schreiber, Biblia pauperum: Nach dem einzigen Exemplare in 50 Darstellungen. Strassburg 1903

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