School of ULM around 1480, follower of Hans Wertinger
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School of ULM around 1480, follower of Hans Wertinger
Saint Barbara
Pine panel with parquet
Old restorations
If Saint Barbara is usually represented next to the tower where she was locked up, Louis Réau (Cf.
"Iconographie de l'art chrétien", 1958 reprint 1988, T.III/1 p. 173) points out that she can also have as an attribute a ciborium
attribute a ciborium without cover surmounted by a host, in particular in Germany or in Flanders where she is invoked against
is invoked against sudden death as patroness of the good death, that is to say death after having received
communion. "The ciborium would be a simple variant of the tower which sometimes had the shape of a turret with a pepperpot, rather similar to the
similar to the pyxides where, in the 15th century, consecrated hosts were kept to administer
to administer the dying. From the turret, one would have passed to the pyxis, then to the ciborium without cover
above which hovers a host.
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