Farewell Christ to Mary
The Christ taking leave of his Mother is a type of representation of the 15th century Christian art. The parting of Jesus Christ from his mother before the crucifixion is depicted . In most cases Mary is shown bowed, often kneeling, or collapsed in pain, and Jesus speaks to her comforting her. Jesus often put his arm around Mary's shoulder or holds her hands while he holds the right hand slightly raised, open to the outside (the so-called speech gesture).
The parting of Christ from Mary is regionally also referred to as a vacation (from Middle High German urloup “permission to go away”), pictorial or figural representations as a vacation group . This type was particularly widespread in the Baroque period - in the course of the forms of devotion to Mary that were increasingly cultivated at the time as part of the Counter-Reformation - as can be seen from numerous land monuments in the Catholic cultural landscapes of Central Europe.
The scene has no biblical origin, but is mentioned in the Apocrypha and is located between the raising of Lazarus and Jesus' entry into Jerusalem . Further sources are Pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditationes de vita Christi and the Marian life of Philipp von Seitz , both from the first half of the 14th century.
literature
- Paul Riedmatter: The iconography of Jesus' parting from Bethanien. Munich 1931 (Philosophical Dissertation), DNB 571490352 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber , Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg. Contributions by Géza Hajós , Horst Richard Huber, Wolfgang Komzak, Johann Kräftner , Markus Kristan, Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer , Inge Podbrecky, Lothar Schultes , Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka, Helmut Windl. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , pp. 1395, 1411