Madonna and Child (Marienborn Abbey)
The sculpture Madonna and Child in the church of the former Marienborn monastery in Hoven , a district of Zülpich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was created in the third quarter of the 12th century.
The 67 cm high wooden sculpture was later polychrome painted . It originally comes from the Marsdorf chapel .
Mary sits in a stiff position on a wooden throne with straight sides and twisted corner posts . She has put her feet next to each other and is holding the baby Jesus with her left arm , who is sitting on her left knee. She holds a scepter in her right hand .
The Madonna wears an undergarment that is only visible over the left foot and around the neck, and a wide skirt with long, falling sleeves. It is held together by a wide belt. A veil falling symmetrically on the back of the neck lies close to her head .
The child, who sits stiffly upright, holds a scepter in the left hand, the right hand is raised in blessing. His clothing consists of an undergarment and a cloak thrown over his left shoulder and then wrapped around his body.
The facial expressions of the figures are striking: long, thin noses and high arched eyebrows. The eyes look puffy.
literature
- Paul Clemen in connection with Edmund Renard : Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Euskirchen (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , fourth volume, IV.) L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1900 (reprint: Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-32119-9 ), P. 93 ( online ).
- North Rhine-Westphalia I - Rhineland ( Dehio manual ): Edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer u. a. With an introduction by Udo Mainzer; Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-442-03093-X , p. 486.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 6 ° 38 ′ 40 ″ E