NORTH GERMANY circa 1500 The Circumcision... - Lot 2 - Crait + Müller

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NORTH GERMANY circa 1500 The Circumcision... - Lot 2 - Crait + Müller
NORTH GERMANY circa 1500 The Circumcision of Christ Polychromed oak bas-relief H. 75 W. 86 D. 4 cm Accidents, missing parts and restorations. Our bas-relief carved panel was originally part of a cycle of the life of Christ that was to adorn the interior panels of a large altarpiece. Gathered around an altar, the Holy Family composed of Mary, Joseph and the Virgin's parents, Anne and Joachim, frame on either side Saint Simeon carrying the Child Jesus. The representation of the episode of the circumcision of Jesus, recounted in the Gospel of Luke (2.21), is an opportunity to celebrate the humanity of Christ in a plastic way, through its religious value and the family union permitted by this event. In this relief, with columns in the background, the holy parents of Christ follow the Jewish tradition of circumcising young boys eight days after their birth. The survival of the prescriptions of the Hebrew law exacerbates the intimate link between the Old and New Testaments, reinforces the beliefs of the biblical typology and places the Messiah in the lineage of the great Jewish prophets. Although St Luke is the only one of the four evangelists to mention this event, the chapter devoted to it by James de Voragine in The Golden Legend (1261-1266) gave great success to this iconographic subject from the 14th century onwards, coinciding also with the institutionalisation of the feast of the Circumcision, on 1 January.
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