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Christ Announcing the Last Judgment. Epitaph of Hans Mohrenberg

author: Fendt, Tobias (1520/30-1576)

date: 1576

place of creation: Wrocław (Wrocław County; Lower Silesian Voivodeship), Lower Silesia

object type: picture / painting, part of an epitaph

material: panel, beech wood

technique: oil

dimensions: H 142 x W 176 cm

founder: Mohrenberg, Hans (1502-1567) – councillor of Wrocław

inscription:

on the frieze of the stone framing in the St. Elizabeth Church, according to Luchs (1860):
Sol toties tenebris nocturnaque Luna laborat: / Nec reliqua ostentis astra stupenda carent. / Sed quis Christe graves coeli terraeque labores / Judici credit nuncia ferre tui. / Illa tamen spaciis brevioribus imminet hora / Quae dictis faciet prodigiisque fidem. Luc. 21.;
below, on the left: Vigilandum igitur atque instanter orandum. [Luc 21,36];
at the bottom: Im Jare 1567 am Sontag Esto mihi ist in Goth seliglich entschlaffen der Edle Ehrenveste und Wohlbenamte H. Hans Morenbergk der Edler von und auf Baruthewitz zum Schönborn. Und hernach im Jare 1576 den 5. Febrer die Edle und Tugendsame fraw Margaretha geborne Heugelin, seine Ehliche hausfraw. Denen und uns allen Gott genedigk sei.

1576-1942

St Elizabeth Church (Wrocław),

Wrocław (Wrocław County; Lower Silesian Voivodeship),

former location

1942-1946

German depository in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki,

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki (Ząbkowice Śląskie County; Lower Silesian Voivodeship),

safekeeping

1946-1981

National Museum in Warsaw,

Warsaw (County Warszawa; Voivodeship Masovia),

property; 186526

The Fashion for Cranach, National Museum in Wroclaw, 31.10.2017 - 31.12.2017

Gołaj I., Wojturski G., Sztuka Śląska XVI-XIX w. Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu. Przewodnik., Wrocław 2012, s. 21-22
Houszka, Ewa, Pierzchała, Marek, Moda na Cranacha, Wrocław 2017, poz. 50.
Luchs, Hermann, Die Denkmäler der St. Elisabeth-Kirche zu Breslau, Breslau 1860
Malarstwo śląskie 1520-1800, red. Pierzchała, Marek, Wrocław 2009, seria Katalogi Zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego we Wrocławiu, s. 105 - 106, kat. 23

provenance: 1981, transfer

on display: Silesian Art 16th – 19th c., room II, Main Building