Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Birkenstein / St. Mariae Verkündigung / Paintings on the outside / Panel 3

GODS AND MYTHS

Amoretti / Various activities / Harvesting / Miscellaneous
Fates / Adaptations
Saturn / Single figure / Head not veiled, without wings, with scythe or sickle
Saturn / Allegories / of Death and Transience

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Science, technology and medicine / Technology / Metallurgy / Identification and separation of Metals / Touchstones to identify metals

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Paradise / Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Old Testament / Ecclesiasticus / Ecclus 6:22: Quasi lapidis virtus probatio erit in illis, et non demorabuntur projicere illam (She shall be to them (the unlearned) as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them bef
Old Testament / Jonas (A.V. Jonah) / Jonas disgorged by the sea-monster (2:11)
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Miraculous Images / Birkenstein / History of the Pilgrimage / The priest who was reluctant to allow for public veneration of the statue falls ill, is miraculously healed, and begins building the chapel

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Death / Ways of dying / Death averted
Death / Personifications / Skeleton or half-rotten corpse / Various activities / Cutting down a tree
Death / Allegories / Death cutting tree

SOCIAL LIFE

Professions and trades / Agricultural / Harvesting / Hops

Further details

Artist or creator

Weidinger, Johann Georg (active by 1761)

Date

1761

Location

Birkenstein, St. Mariae Verkündigung

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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