Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

87-103. The Great Mother / 99. Varia

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Sheep

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Virgin Mary / Life of the Virgin / Joachim and Anne / Joachim and Anna choose a lamb to be sacrificed in the temple

RITUAL

Sacrifice / Animals / Sheep

Further details

This probably shows the preparation for Joachim's - eventually rejected - sacrifice

Artist or creator

Fries, Hans (c1460-after 1518)

Date

1512

Location

Basle, Kunstmuseum (inv. 226)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

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Web resources

Kunstmuseum Basel

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