Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

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

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Life of Christ / Ministry / Teaching / 'Tollite iugum meum super vos ... Iugum meum enim suave' (Take up my yoke upon you ... for my yoke is sweet), Mt. 11:29-30)
Life of Christ / Passion / Cycles / Stations of the Cross / Birkenstein, Chapel St. Mariae Verkündigung (Josef Grass and Georg Zelger, c1780, incomplete, with emblems) / Stations 5 and 6
Life of Christ / Passion / Way to Calvary / Christ carrying the cross / Christ upright / With Veronica
Life of Christ / Passion / Way to Calvary / Christ carrying the cross / Christ upright / Without Veronica / With Simon of Cyrene
Catechism (Creed, Pater noster, Sacraments, Works of Mercy etc) / Eight Beatitudes / Beati mites (Blessed are the meek, Mt. 5:4)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegories and personifications A-Z / Contemplation (Contemplatio)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Gentleness (Mansuetudo)

Further details

Inspired by Stations of the Cross from St Peter's in Munich (Heinrich Karth, 1776)

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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