Tablet with Biblical Quotations
Relief
1552 (made)
1552 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Although Wurzburg remained a strongly Catholic city after the Reformation, the choice of only biblical quotations on this tablet shows the response even in Catholic centres to the Protestant emphasis on the Biblical text. The variety of scripts illustrate the range of florid styles used in handwriting as well as in other types of 16th century visual culture such as sculpture and architecture.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Tablet with Biblical Quotations |
| Materials and techniques | Honestone |
| Brief description | Stone German 16th cent hans burtzel 1552 |
| Physical description | Tablet, hone stone, carved in relief with the following quotations and paraphrases from the Holy Bible and the Apocrypha, in five different types of writing- (1) Psalm 24, v.1 ; (2) Psalm 37, vv. 1 and 2; (3) Ecclesiastes ch. 2, v. 24; (4) proverbs, ch. 22, vv. 1 to 3; (5) The Book of Wisdom, ch 9, vv. 10, 11. All are in the German language except for (3) which is Latin. There are traces of gilding. At the bottom is carved the name 'Hanns Burtzel vonn Wirtzburg', and at the top the date 1552. |
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| Object history | Bought from Forrer Collection. |
| Summary | Although Wurzburg remained a strongly Catholic city after the Reformation, the choice of only biblical quotations on this tablet shows the response even in Catholic centres to the Protestant emphasis on the Biblical text. The variety of scripts illustrate the range of florid styles used in handwriting as well as in other types of 16th century visual culture such as sculpture and architecture. |
| Bibliographic reference | List of Objects in the Art Division South Kensington Museum acquired during the Year 1899. Arranged according to the dates of acquisition, with appendix and indices. London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office. Wyman and Sons. 1903. pp.130 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 800-1899 |
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| Record created | March 9, 2009 |
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