Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Augsburg / Dom / Cloister - West wing / Bay 4 (from North) - West wall

PORTRAITS

Clerics / Provosts and Canons / Augsburg, Cathedral / Freyberg, Burkhard II von (died 1502, also Canon of Freising Cathedral and Provost of St Veit in Freising)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Virgin Mary / Virgin and Child / With saints / With a single saint
Virgin Mary / Virgin and Child / With supplicant
Saints / Saints A - Z / Vitus / Single figure

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Coats-of-Arms / Holy Roman Empire / Lower Nobility and Patricians / Freyberg (Swabia)

Further details

Kosel refers to documents suggesting that St John the Baptist was depicted. However, it is apparently a youthful saint with a coronet-like object and holding a martyr's palm, thus more likely St Vitus, of whose canonry the deceased was provost

Artist or creator

Peurlin, Hans, I (c1436-1482) (attributed)

Date

1477 (circa)

Location

Augsburg, Domkreuzgang

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Karl Kosel, Der Augsburger Domkreuzgang und seine Denkmäler, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 339-341, no. 324

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