Anna teaches Maria to read

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Altarpiece in the St. Anna chapel in the cloister of the former Buxheim Charterhouse near Memmingen

Anna teaches Mary to read means in Christian iconography a representation on which the mother of Mary , St. Anna teaching her daughter to read.

Representations can be found from the 14th century, especially in the Baroque era . For example, at the parish church of St. Veit in Krems an der Donau, a separate chapel was built in 1739 for a sculpture from the first half of the 14th century. A depiction of the third of Anna in the Aegydius Church in Pötzleinsdorf shows Maria with the baby Jesus , next to Anna with the book on her knees.

During the Revolution of 1848 took Ferdinand I and his wife Maria Anna of Savoy from Vienna to Innsbruck, and gave a dean for the night in the Tyrolean lowlands a report prepared by the Viennese goldsmith Carl Isack 1850 chalice , as on the highly oval in an email Medallion Patron saint St. Anna is shown teaching Mary to read.

Web links

Commons : Anna teaches Maria to read  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Marlene Strausz-Zykan: Agidiuskirche. The Holy Family at poetzleinsdorf.at
  2. ↑ Measuring chalice with enamel medallions - an imperial foundation (1850) on kulturraumtirol.at