Holy grave chest
The holy grave chest of Baar is one of the few painted representations of the holy grave and for a long time was considered unique in this form in the German-speaking area.
The holy grave chest was used in the liturgy at Easter. The grave Christ or the crucifix with movable arms was placed in the chest together with the host from Good Friday evening to Easter Sunday . The crucifix belonging to this chest is no longer preserved today.
The wooden chest can also be seen as a Gothic shrine . The chest is covered by two elongated boards that form a gable roof. The front board can be opened forwards. The chest is painted with figurative representations; their basic color is leaf green . The risen Christ with the victory flag can be seen on the hinged outside of the lid. He is depicted between two angels wielding a censer (the censer has been scraped out; only the chains can be seen). Two sleeping grave guards lie on the front. There is also a grave guard on each side; the one on the left is shown awake and in a pensive mood; the one on the right asleep, with a grim face and propped up on his shield. The back of the chest has no figurative representations. All around, niches are painted, also in the background of the depiction of the guard, which are held as a perspective offset tracery in red and blue - green on the side. The inside is painted in a gray structure, which indicates the rock grave. When open, the painted inside of the lid is visible. Three women with ointment vessels are depicted on it. The scene is shown in which the grave is found empty, with two angels holding the shroud.
The grave chest has no evidence of its origin. Based on the soft style that characterizes it, it was probably created around 1430.
The chest was originally located in St. Martin's Church in Baar and was then shown for a long time in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich (with a statue from Saaren). Today it is on loan from the Catholic parish of Baar in the Burg Museum in Zug.
A holy grave chest (mid-14th century) is located in the church of the Cistercian abbey Magerau , in Freiburg i.Ü.
literature
- Museum der Burg Zug, Bau Collection Selected Objects , 2002 Museum der Burg Zug, ISBN 3-9520185-7-0 , page 39
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Museum of Zug Castle, Building Collection Selected Objects, page 39
- ↑ The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zug 1st Half Volume , Introduction and the Art Monuments of Zug-Land. Birkhäuser 1934 pp. 85-87
- ^ Magerau Abbey , accessed on November 16, 2012.
Remarks
- ↑ Until the holy grave chest was found in the rectory of Biberist