Thronende Maria mit Kind, vier hll. Jungfrauen Katharina, Agnes, Apollonia und Barbara und musizierenden Engeln,

um 1440

Material / Technology / Carrier

Eichenholz

Dimensions of the object

85,8 cm

Displayed

Not on display

Department

Altdeutsche Malerei

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

WAF 500

Acquisition

1827 aus der Sammlung Boisserée

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Kölnisch um 1440, Thronende Maria mit Kind, vier hll. Jungfrauen Katharina, Agnes, Apollonia und Barbara und musizierenden Engeln, um 1440, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/y7GEQk1GPV (Last updated on 12.08.2022)

The Virgin as the Queen of Heaven is holding the Christ Child on her lap, offering him a rose; the Holy Virgin Martyrs and angels surround them. The angels are playing a tabor pipe, drum, shawm, lute, psaltery, fiddle, mandora and triangle. They are inviting the Christ Child to join in. It would appear that the music-loving Cistercian nuns from Mariengarten Convent in Cologne commissioned the artist to interpret the name of their convent in pictorial form.