Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Munich, Art Market (1967) and formerly Straßburg, Forrer Collection (Fragments, Upper Rhine, c1330-1340) / Munich fragment (ch. 37-38)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37d: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37d: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall / Original composition: The woman stands on the city wall holding the head, whilst Joab stands outside
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 20:21-22: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall / Model for Mary interceding for the faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with 2 Kings 20:21-22: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall (SHS)
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / Seba's Rebellion (2 Kings 20) / Seba's head is thrown down from the walls of Abela (2 Kings 2:22)

Further details

Artist or creator

Upper Rhine

Date

1330 (circa) - 1340

Location

Munich, Art market (offered in 1967)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: r.

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. 149

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