Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

87-103. The Great Mother / 99. Varia

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

The Elements / Effects of the elements / Movement of water / Waterfall
Geography / Topography / Unidentified
Geography / Landscape / With allegorical subjects
Geography / Landscape / Mountainscapes
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Lion / Miscellaneous

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Barbara / Life / Martyrdom

Further details

It has been suggested that this might show St Barbara taken up onto the mountain before her death (Golden Legend) and that it might have been the reverse of a portrait of someone called Barbara

Artist or creator

Memling, Hans (born 1430-1440, died 1494) (attributed)

Date

15th century

Location

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Bibliographic Citation

Barbara G. Lane, Hans Memling, Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges, p. 330, cat. no. B 11

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Contact

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