Cain and Abel fireplace
The Cain and Abel chimney in Hugenpoet Castle in Essen - Kettwig was created in 1577. It is one of the “most brilliant works of the late Renaissance in the Rhineland and Westphalia, which was under Dutch influence”. The chimney belongs to three Renaissance chimneys made of Baumberger stone with reliefs from the years 1560 to 1578, which originally came from Horst Castle and later moved to Hugenpoet Castle. Paul Clemen describes in the art monuments of the city and the district of Düsseldorf .
" [It] consists of a three-part attachment that rests on two extraordinarily beautiful console-like feet, with gripping and. Decorated lion heads, ending in a lion's claw, and decorated on the sides with jumping griffins in relief. The architrave above is in three parts, in the middle in the bas-relief the figure-rich representation of a stoning Stephen, on the side two other biblical scenes, on the narrow sides on the right Jezebel overthrown from the walls of Jerusalem, on the left David and Sulamith (?). The top resting above the architrave, supported by consoles, is supported at the corners by protruding fluted columns, with hermenkaryatids in between. In the middle the lament for the dead Abel, the bodies in beautiful, sensual and charming shapes, niches on the right and left, on the left with the ideal figure of hope (?), On the right with Moses. On the narrow sides Aaron and Judith, between two fluted columns each. The coronation with two volutes on the side and a cartouche in the middle. "
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the Rhine province. Third volume. I. The art monuments of the city and the district of Düsseldorf. On behalf of the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province . Düsseldorf 1894, p. 123.
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 6 ° 55 ′ 2 ″ E