Box altar (painting)
The box altar in the Catholic chapel of St. Servatius in Streichen , a district of the Schleching community in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein , was created around 1410. The paintings are important examples of the Soft Style in Bavaria.
The so-called box or cell altar has two rod-like thin columns inside and two movable wings. In the shrine stands the figure of St. Servatius , the church patron. The box and the wings are painted inside and outside with eight full-length saints: Inside on the narrow side, Mary with the child can be seen on the left and St. Ursula with the anchor on the right . On the wing, St. Sebastian is depicted on the left and St. Laurentius with the grate on the right. Outside on the narrow side, St. Agnes with the lamb is painted on the left and St. Elisabeth of Thuringia with the bowl and the loaf of bread on the right . On the other wing, St. Erasmus is depicted on the left with the cobblers' awls and on the right, St. Nicholas with three gold balls.
literature
- Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 , p. CII and 475 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 3 " N , 12 ° 24 ′ 11.3" E