Iconography
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 281-283 (2140) (Rhineland, c1390)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 13: Temptation of Christ / 13d: David kills a lion and a bear to protect his flock / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 13: Temptation of Christ / 13d: David kills a lion and a bear to protect his flock / Original composition: David stands, holds with his outstretched arms the lions and bear at his left and right
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 1 Kings / 1 Kings 17:34-35: David recounts having killed a lion and a bear to protect his sheep / Type for the Temptation of Christ (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the third temptation)
Further details
Artist or creator
Rhineland from Steinhaus monastery near Wuppertal
Date
1390 (circa)
Location
Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 281-283 (cat. no. 2140)
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 17r.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Evelyn Silber, The early iconography of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis: The Italian connection in the Fourteeenth Century, PhD Cambridge 1982 (typoscr.), pl. 104
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