Gregor's Mass (Bernt Notke)
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| Gregor's Mass |
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| Bernt Notke (attribution) , between 1498 and 1504, probably 1503 |
| 250 × 357 cm |
| Marienkirche in Lübeck until 1942 |
The Gregory Mass was a late Gothic panel painting in the Marienkirche in Lübeck .
Probably as an epitaph for Adolf Greverade, who died in 1501, and probably as part of his will, one of the most admired and described works of art in St. Mary's Church until its destruction in 1942 was created: St. Gregory's Mass , attributed to the late work of the Lübeck painter Bernt Notke .
The panel with the Gregor's mass painted in oil on a chalk background was 2.50 m high and 3.57 m wide, making it one of the largest panels in Northern Europe. Under a quarter-circle arched Gothic protective roof, which ends at the front with three keel arches crowned with finials and with an upper pointed arch gallery, one could see a small Gothic chapel, through whose pointed arched portal the eye falls on a church surrounded by houses. Pope Gregory I was kneeling in front of the altar in prayer , accompanied by a group of clergymen and a layperson. In the foreground to the left of the Pope knelt the founder, who is identified as a clergyman by his tonsure and as a canon by the Almutia lying on his shoulder . On the carapace of his choir coat the Greveradesche coat of arms can be seen: on a black ground above two green wreaths with five white and five red roses, down a half-white, half red rose . This coat of arms was also found on the lower corner of the Pope's chasuble and three times on the protective roof of the picture. In the only layman in the picture opposite him, one saw his nephew and executor Heinrich Greverade and the rolled-up will in the scroll he was holding in his left hand.
The approximate date of the foundation of the painting are the years between 1498 and 1504; Recently, Andrea Boockmann suspected a connection with the stay of Cardinal Raimundus Peraudi in Lübeck in 1503. After that, Peraudi was possibly the cardinal who appears in the top right of the picture. The three bishops depicted in the painting can be identified as Dietrich II. Arndes (Lübeck), Johannes von Parkentin (Ratzeburg) and Detlev von Pogwisch (Schleswig).
The picture will initially have hung in the family chapel under the north tower. When it was first mentioned in writing in 1666 and in the following century, it hung on the south wall of the southern chapel of the ambulatory, later it came (back) to the Greveraden and from there to the Bergenfahr chapel between the towers; Since its restoration by Johannes Nöhring in 1895, it has been hanging again in the ambulatory, where it burned during the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.
literature
- Uwe Albrecht , Ulrike Nürnberger, Jan Friedrich Richter , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume II: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the works in the urban area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012. # * 23 Gregorsmesse , pp. 540–549. ISBN 3-933598-76-1
- F. Hirsch, G. Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume II: Petrikirche. Marienkirche. Heili.-Geist-Hospital. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version), pp. 320–322
- Peter G. Bietenholz: Adolf Greverade of Lübeck. In: Contemporaries of Erasmus. A biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Toronto / Buffalo / London: University iof Toronto press 1986 ISBN 0-8020-2571-4 , Sp. 127-130
- Andrea Boockmann: The destroyed painting of the 'Gregory Mass' by Bernt Notke in the Marienkirche and the stay of Cardinal Raimundus Peraudi in Lübeck 1503 . In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology (ZVLGA). Volume 81, 2001, pp. 105-122.
- Kerstin Petermann: Bernt Notke . Berlin: Reimer 2000, ISBN 3-496-01217-X , pp. 249-251
- Wiechmann-Kadov : The procession to Lübeck in 1503. And the letters of indulgence from the cardinal legate Raimund. In: Serapeum 19, 1858, issue 6, ISSN 1619-3989 , pp. 93-96, ( digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Boockmann: The destroyed painting of the 'Gregorsmesse' by Bernt Notke in the Marienkirche and the stay of Cardinal Raimund Peraudi in Lübeck 1503 . In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology (ZVLGA) 81, 2001, pp. 105–122
- ↑ Albrecht, Lit., pp. 540-549