Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Exodus / The Giving of the Law on Sinai / God gives Moses the tablets of the Law (Exod. 31:18; cf. Exod. 24:12)
Old Testament / Exodus / The Golden Calf / The worship of the Golden Calf (Exod. 32:6)
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / 10 Commandments / Cycles / Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Circle of Veit Stoss, 1524)
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / 10 Commandments / Individual / Thou shalt not have strange gods before me
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / 10 Commandments / Individual / Thou shalt not have strange gods before me / Negative Exemplum: Worship of the Golden Calf
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / 10 Commandments / Individual / Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain / Fulfilment
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / 10 Commandments / Individual / Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain / Transgression
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / 10 Commandments / Individual / Keep holy the sabbath day / Transgression

Further details

The left half clearly shows the Worship of the Golden Calf as the archetypal worship of strange gods. The right half probably contrasts worship and blasphemy of God in the foreground, the gamblers in the background may relate to the Second or already to the Third Commandment

Artist or creator

Stoss, Veit, the elder (born 1445-1450, died 1533) (workshop)

Date

1524

Location

Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (inv. MA 1898-1903)

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

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