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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Königsberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cod. S. 18.2 (dispersed) / Chapter 37c-d (unknown location)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37c: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37c: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom / Variant: With Absalom
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 14:4-20: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom / Model for Mary interceding for the faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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 14:4-20: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom (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) / Ammon and Thamar, first conflict with Absalom (2 Kings 13-14) / Joab and the wise woman of Thecua before David (2 Kings 14:22)
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

Tyrolese or
Swiss

Date

1426

Location

unknown, unknown location (photograph in the Pushkin Museum, with inv. 17480-g of an unknown collection)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Zolotova E. Iu, Nemetskaia rukopis 'Zertsalo chelovecheskogo spaseniia' XV veka: Opyt rekonstruktsii (The German manuscript 'Mirror of human salvation' of the XV century: A reconstruction attempt, in Lazarevskie chteniia. Iskusstvo Vizantii, Drevnei Rusi, Zapadnoi Evropy. Materialy nauchnoi konferentsii 2009 (Lazarevsky readings: The art of Byzantium, Ancient Russia, Western Europe. Materials of the scientific conference 2009), Moskva 2009, pp. 346-367, p. 357, fig. 24

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