Recto: The Mercy Seat is depicted on the horizontal format and is a sort of visualization of the Holy Trinity, which unites God the Father, Christ and the Holy Ghost represented by a dove in a compact pictorial formula. The Chemnitz Mercy Seat is a particularly haunting depiction whose suggestive
Recto: The Mercy Seat is depicted on the horizontal format and is a sort of visualization of the Holy Trinity, which unites God the Father, Christ and the Holy Ghost represented by a dove in a compact pictorial formula. The Chemnitz Mercy Seat is a particularly haunting depiction whose suggestive power recalls the medieval pieta and clearly draws on iconographic stock from the Cranach workshop.
Verso: The depiction of the three Marys among the saints is on the other hand much less conventional and not comparable with other Cranach works [...]. At the holy gathering angels evidently cousel the soul of the altar's donor. Neither the two female saints on the left nor the four apostles on the right can be clearly identified, although their characterised physiognomy suggest that specific saints are depicted here to represent the holy throng in the heavenly church.
[Böhlitz 2005, 19-23]
Comment: Böhlitz 2005, 19-23 in contrast with the arrangement proposed here, suggests that the Assumption of the Souls was depicted on the recto and the Mercy Seat on the verso.
[cda 2015]
- Attributions
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Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Hans Kemmer (in Cranach the Elder's workshop)
Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | ['Werkstatt Lucas Cranach d. Ä. (Hans Kemmer)', Heydenreich 2021 B, 67] ['Werkstatt Lucas Cranach d. Ä. (Hans Kemmer)', Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 24] |
Hans Kemmer (in Cranach the Elder's workshop) | ['Werkstatt Lucas Cranach d. Ä. (Hans Kemmer)', Heydenreich 2021 B, 67] |
- Production dates
- about 1515 - 1525
1515 - 1520
Production dates
about 1515 - 1525 | [Böhlitz 2005, 19-22, 23] |
1515 - 1520 | [Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 24] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of visible surface: 91.5 x 127.8 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of visible surface: 91.5 x 127.8 cm
Dimensions including frame: 110.2 x 146.3 cm
[cda 2015]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Owner
- Ev.-Luth. St.-Petri-Schlosskirchgemeinde Chemnitz
- Repository
- Schlosskirche Chemnitz
- Location
- Chemnitz
- CDA ID
- DE_PSKC_NONE-PSKC002
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FRSup018C
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_PSKC_NONE-PSKC002/