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Figures of St John the Baptist and Moses from the epitaph of Anton Schatztag

creator: unknown

date: ca 1620

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

object type: epitaph, picture / painting, sculpture

material: panel

technique: oil, gilding, sculpting, wood carving

dimensions: H ok. 450 cm

inscription:
Latin majuscule on frieze: VIVO ET VOS VIVETIS

in renaissance minuscule on the upper inscription panel:
Ad CHR[ISTU]M ducit Mo- / ses, jubet ire Johannes / Ad Christum, verbo / dispare, sine pari. Hinc bene conveniunt san- / ctoque in corde morantur, / SPE suffulta FIDES, / SPES animata FIDE. / Cessabunt: sed erit DI- / LECTIO maxima Virtus, / Incipienda solo, / continuanda polo

Gothic minuscule on lower inscription panel:
Im Jahr Christi 16 [blank] den [blank] ist in Gott se- / lig entschlaffen der Ernueste Herr Anthoni Schatztag, Bürger alhier, Seines Alters [blank] Jahr. Dan im Jahr Christi 16 [blank] den [blank] ist auch in Gott selig verschie- / den die Ehrntugentreiche Fraw Elisabet Schu- / bertin, seine Ehelich hausfraw. / Ihres Alters [blank] Jahr. Denen Gott eine / fröhliche Auferste- / hung zum ewiges Leben vor- / leihen wolle.
  • Bimler, Kurt, Zur Kunstgeschichte der Breslauer Barbara-, Bernhardin- und Christophorikirche, [w:] Quellen zur Schlesischen Kunstgeschichte, red. Kurt Bimler, z. 3, Breslau 1938
  • Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Breslau, T. 2 Die kirchlichen Denkmäler der Altstadt, red. Ludwig Burgemeister, Günther Grundmann, Breslau 1933
  • Nowak, Romulad, Rzeźba śląska XVI-XVIII, Wrocław 1994, seria Katalogi zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego we Wrocławiu
  • Pierzchała, Marek, Houszka, Ewa, Lejman, Beata, Łukaszewicz, Piotr, Malarstwo śląskie 1520-1800, Wrocław 2009, seria Katalogi Zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego we Wrocławiu, s. 170, kat. 80
  • Schellenberg, Alfred, Schlesisches Wappenbuch, Görlitz 1938
  • Steinborn, Bożena, Malowane epitafia mieszczanskie na Śląsku w latach 1520-1620, "Roczniki Sztuki Śląskiej", z. IV, 1967
not on display

National Museum in Wrocław Department of Painting 16th–19th c.

inventory number: MNWr VIII-1098/a-c

copyrights to object: PUBLIC DOMAIN
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