Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

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

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

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

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegories and personifications A-Z / Patience (Patientia) / General

Further details

Inspired by Stations of the Cross from St Peter's in Munich (Heinrich Karth, 1776). The inscription (which looks like product of a later restauration) exhorts the faithful to be inspired by Christ's fall to practice Patience, hence this figure may be depicted here

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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