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Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Textiles / Bamberg, Cope of St Henry II (so-called 'Sternenmantel,' Regensburg, c1020) / Religious images / Virgin Mary and St John
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Textiles / Bamberg, Cope of St Henry II (so-called 'Sternenmantel,' Regensburg, c1020) / Busts (unidentified)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Evangelists / John / Single figure / With chalice / with book, without eagle

Further details

O'Connor suggests that this image shows St John Evangelist with book and chalice, Baumgärtel-Fleischmann regards it as a Mid-15th-century re-interpretation of a (no long identifiable) constellation

Artist or creator

Regensburg

Date

1020 (circa)

Location

Bamberg, Domschatz

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Elizabeth O'Connor, The Star Mantle of Henry II, PhD Columbia 1980, pp. 125-128; Renate Baumgärtel-Fleischmann, Der Sternenmantel kaiser Heinrichs II. und seine Inschriften, in: Epigraphik 1988, ed. Walter Koch, Wien 1990, 105-125, p. 118

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