Cleaver Madonna
The Spalter Madonna is a late Gothic colored 60 cm high Madonna figure from the year 1519.
description
The figure, created by an unknown master, shows Mary with the baby Jesus on her left arm. In the other arm Maria carries a staff. She wears a crown and is surrounded by golden rays. The figure is inscribed on the base in Latin: "RELIQUIAE DIVVM MARIAE PATRIAEQUE SALUTI" ("Relics of saints - for Mary and for the salvation of the native city") and bears the year MDXIX (1519). This date is so close to a great indulgence in 1518 that one can assume a connection. The figure was originally filled with relics , which are now lost. She did not always wear her halo.
history
Georg Spalatin , the mediator between Martin Luther and the Elector Friedrich III. von Sachsen, made sure in 1519 that the 60 centimeter high figure was given to the church of St. Emmeram in his home town of Spalt as a gift from the Wittenberg Heiltums collection .
On the occasion of the Luther year 2017, a permanent exhibition was set up in the Altenburg Bartholomäikirche to commemorate Spalatin's work. The Spalter Madonna was also sent to Altenburg on loan.
literature
- Stefan Roller: Nuremberg sculpture of the late Gothic. Contributions to the sculpture of the imperial city in the second half of the 15th century. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999, p. 201 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Yearbook for Franconian State Research . Degener, 1959 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Chronicle of Wolfgang Agricola, in: Heimatkundliche Hefte No. 44/45, published 2010/2011 by Heimatverein Spalter Land eV, p. 37b: (...) "a little picture of our women and then a Jesus, is agile full of healing thumbs stuck, brought with them from Wittenberg, and the parish church alhie frowned upon. "
- ↑ Veit-Mario Thiede: Spalter Madonna goes on a long journey , message from July 8, 2014, online at nordbayern.de