The visitation of the Virgin Mary, of Švamberk

Unknown (Bohemian)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

after 1450

Height:

57.5 cm  (22 5/8 in.)

Width:

57.5 cm  (22 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera on canvas-covered limewood, the reverse painted on (marble décor)

Place of creation:

Plzeňský Kraj (Česko)

Additional titles

Description

From the Národní galerie Praha website: The small panel of unknown provenance is among the significant works of the group of monuments that are hypothetically associated with South Bohemian provenance. It is one of the few devotional works with a painted frame of Bohemical provenance where the narrative Visitation with two assisting main holy virgins - Saint Dorothea and Saint Catherine - forms the central scene instead of the representative Marian depiction. The kneeling donor has been identified, thanks to the coat of arms, as a member of an influential Švamberk family. In addition to the usual iconographical setting of the Evangelists and Holy Virgins, Saint Cecilia (the musical instrument attribute) is also depicted at the bottom bar of the frame.

People as subjects

St. Cecilia (Musician)
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
St. Catherine of Alexandria (ca. 282-ca. 305)
St. Dorothy (d. 311)

Iconclass

11HH(CECILIA)111
St. Cecilia making music and/or singing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5640