Tabernacle frame

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The tabernacle frame is in the late Gothic Rahmenkunst resulting Rahmungsart sacred sculptures.

The tabernacle probably originally refers to the place where the tablets of the law, the holy of holies of the Jews, were kept . In Christianity the holy of holies has its place in the tabernacle. The tabernacle frame is based on the front view of the tabernacle with its columns and roof. This frame shape emerged from the aedicula frame (Latin aedicula, little temple) as its reduced version.

The aedicula initially referred to small roofed structures in Roman temples in which statues were housed. Later, this term was used to name all small, temple-like buildings, niches and finally also picture frames that were structured by columns, pilasters and pillars as well as a triangular or segmented arch gable - the architrave . Against this background of the history of its origins, the tabernacle frame can be viewed as a form of picture frame shaped by architecture.