Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 11972

Augustine of Hippo, Writing, misericord, Leuven, Sint-Gertrudis, NB-8.
Augustine of Hippo, Writing, misericord, Leuven, Sint-Gertrudis, NB-8.

Record No

11972

Collection

The Elaine C. Block Database of Misericords

Inventory Number

Sequence: NB-8

Location

Belgium, Flanders, Vlaams-Brabant, Leuven, Sint-Gertrudis

Date

1540–1543

Subject Headings

Augustine of Hippo
Book
Augustine of Hippo, Writing

Description

Augustine of Hippo, Writing -- Scribe Augustine of Hippo, wearing bishop's vestments (miter and cope), seated behind desk decorated with bust roundels, on which are books, open and closed, and candlestick, with his right hand writing on single sheet; round window or mirror in upper left of the scene.

Notes

Artist: Mathieu de Waeyer

Sequence: NB-8

Citations

BLOCK Elaine, Corpus of medieval misericords: Belgium – Netherlands, (Edited by Christel Theunissen, Jos Koldeweij & Frédéric Billiet), Turnhout, 2010, pp. 33-34.

LEME-HEBUTERNE Kristiane, « Quelques ensembles de stalles à représentations religieuses », Art Sacré n° 12: Stalles et miséricordes, spiritualité et truculence, colloque de Vendôme: 30 sept.-1er oct. 1999, Cahiers de rencontre avec le patrimoine religieux, pp. 75-81.

MADOU Mireille, De Heilige Gertrudis van Nijvel, I: Bijdrage tot een iconografische studie, II: inventaris van de Gertrudisvoorstelligen, Brussel, 1975, pp. 171, 12, 256.

STEPPE J.K., Wereld van vroomheid en satire: laat-gotische koorbanken in Vlaaderen, Kasterlee, 1973, p. 292.

BORCHEGRAVE D’ALTENA, « Notes pour servir à l'étude des stalles en Belgique », Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, n°41, 1937, pp. 231-258.

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