Iconography

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegorical cycles / Stein am Rhein, Haus 'Zum Weissen Adler' (c. 1520)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Truth (Veritas) / Mouth of Truth (Bocca della Verità)

Further details

Reinhard Frauenfelder notes that the first text to make the woman in this tale an empress was Johannes von Pauli's Schimpf und Ernst of 1522, so suggesting a terminus post quem for the facade.

Artist or creator

Schmid, Thomas (c. 1490-c. 1555) (attributed)

Date

1525 (circa)

Location

Stein am Rhein, Haus 'Zum weissen Adler'

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Heinrich Waldvogel, Das Haus 'Zum weissen Adler' in Stein am Rhein, in: Schaffhauser Beiträge zur vaterländischen Geschichte, 41, 1964, pp. 78-85; Reinhard Frauenfelder, Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, Schaffhausen II, pp. 258-63; idem, 'Das Bocca della Verità-Motiv am 'Weissen Adler' zu Stein am Rhein, Ikonographische Studie', in: Schaffhauser Beiträge zur vaterländischen Geschichte, Bd. 32, 1955, pp. 39-40

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