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 / Silence (Silentium)

Further details

Inspired by Stations of the Cross from St Peter's in Munich (Heinrich Karth, 1776). Both the inscriptions (which look like being products of a later restauration) and the bridle suggest that Silence is depicted her e- the objects in the scales cannot be identified

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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