Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Birkenstein / St. Mariae Verkündigung / Stations of the Cross

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Proverbs / Various Proverbs (Prov. 10-22:16) / Prov. 16:32: Melior est patiens viro forti; et qui dominatur animo suo, expugnatore urbium (The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh cities)
Life of Christ / Passion / Cycles / Stations of the Cross / Birkenstein, Chapel St. Mariae Verkündigung (Josef Grass and Georg Zelger, c1780, incomplete, with emblems) / Stations 3 and 4
Life of Christ / Passion / Way to Calvary / Christ falling under the Cross / Emblems

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Emblems / Cycles (outside books) / Panel and Canvas Paintings / Birkenstein, Chapel St. Mariae Verkündigung, Stations of the Cross (Josef Grass and Georg Zelger, c1780)
Emblems, imprese and devices - catalogue / Plants and Trees / Tree (generic) / Bent by Storm
Emblems, imprese and devices - catalogue / Heart / Not Winged / Two hearts pierced by the same arrow

Further details

Inspired by Stations of the Cross from St Peter's in Munich (Heinrich Karth, 1776); Lemma: Ein geduldiger ist besser als ein starker (Prov. 16:32)

Artist or creator

Grass, Josef Franz Xaver (born 1737, died 1788-1789) and
Zelger, Georg (active by c1780)

Date

1780 (circa)

Location

Birkenstein, St. Mariae Verkündigung

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Contact

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