Iconography
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Printed editions / Lyon: Huss, 1478
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 24: Crucifixion / 24d: Eleazar stabs the elephant into its belly and is crushed by it / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 24: Crucifixion / 24d: Eleazar stabs the elephant into its belly and is crushed by it / Original composition: Eleazar under the elephant, stabbing it from beneath
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25a: The crucified Christ mocked by the Jews / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25a: The crucified Christ mocked by the Jews / Variant: A soldier piercing Christ side, with Mary and John, in the background Jews with banderoles
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 6:15-16, 20-22: David dances before the Ark of the Covenant and is rebuked by his wife Michol / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 1 Machabees / 1 Mach. 6:46: Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Evil-Merodach cuts the body of Evil-Merodach into 300 parts / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with 2 Kings 6:15-16, 20-22: David dances before the Ark of the Covenant and is rebuked by his wife Michol (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of the Dead Christ)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with Evilmerodach cutting the dead body of his father Nabuchodonosor into 300 parts (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with 1 Mach. 6:46: Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Further details
woodcut. Image also used in the first edition printed in Lyon in 1478 (first illustrated book printed in France). Image also used in the editions: 1479, 1482, 1486 (presumably, no surviving copy), 1488.
Artist or creator
Date
1478
Location
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Colophon: Cy finist le Mirouer de la redemption de lumain lignage (GW M43034). Lyon (Huss). 1483. Folio: 96v.
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