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Ancient / Tomyris / Dipping Cyrus's head into a barrel of blood

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, GKS 79 folio (Bruges, c1440)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 30: Mary vanquishing the devil through compassion with Christ / 30d: Tomyris beheads King Cyrus and dips his head into a barrel of blood / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 30: Mary vanquishing the devil through compassion with Christ / 30d: Tomyris beheads King Cyrus and dips his head into a barrel of blood / Variant: Tomyris with servants
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Tomyris dips the head of Cyrus into blood / Type for Mary vanquishing the devil (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary vanquishing the devil / with Tomyris dipping the severed head of Cyrus into a barrel of blood (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Coats-of-Arms / Fictive / Classical deities and heroes / Cyrus

Further details

Artist or creator

Bruges (Gold Scrolls Group)

Date

1440 (circa)

Location

Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 79 folio

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 70r.

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