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Worms tablets: Apostle Peter

As Wormser panels two are altarpiece called that were painted around the 1250th

The wings were part of a portable altarpiece, which also included a central panel, but this is not known today. The wings are painted on both sides and the images of their saints painted on oak are one of the earliest works of German panel painting . They have been in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt since 1938 .

Altarpieces were already placed on the originally free-standing altar tables in churches in the early Middle Ages in order to depict the saints venerated in the church. At the beginning of the 13th century, the first painted changing altars were made, for which a central shrine was provided with closable wings. The shrine was closed on weekdays and the inside could only be seen on bank holidays when the wings were opened. The Worms panels show Nicholas on the outside and Paul on the inside , Stephen on the right on the outside and Peter on the inside . The Worms Cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter, and there were early relics revered of St. Nicholas.

literature

  • Gisela Bergsträßer: The Worms panels (around 1260) in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. History, painting technique and preservation . In: Volk und Scholle , Vol. 16 (1938), pp. 37-40.
  • Adelheid Wiesmann-Emmerling: The Worms panels (around 1260) in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. In: Art in Hessen and on the Middle Rhine / NF , Vol. 1 (2005), pp. 21–60, ISSN  0452-8514 .

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