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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 99 (Calabria, 1428-1429)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25c: Absalom, already wounded by lances, is attacked with swords / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25c: Absalom, already wounded by lances, is attacked with swords / Original composition: In the middle Absalom hanging from the tree, pierced by three spears, at the left and right a soldier attacking him with a sword
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with 2 Kings 6:15-16, 20-22: David dances before the Ark of the Covenant and is rebuked by his wife Michol (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of the Dead Christ)
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Artist or creator
Date
1428 - 1429
Location
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 99
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 28r.
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