The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58

The unique iconography of the Rieter Window is directly related to the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Mount Sinai, and Egypt, in which a member of the patrician family, Sebald Rieter the Younger, participated in 1479/80. He and his brother Peter are depicted kneeling in adoration before the image of the Virgin Mary in the donor zone on the far right, adorned with the chain of the Aragonese Order of the Pitcher. In the adjacent coat of arms, three further knightly insignia are incorporated, all relating to Sebald Rieter: the Jerusalem Cross of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus, and the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai. Above the base, which displays further coats of arms from a Rieter family line of ancestors—the male line of the window donors, including other pilgrims to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, most of whom bear the insignia of the Cypriot Order of the Sword—follows a detailed Moses cycle in five lines, continuing downwards from the top of the window. This cycle depicts the Exodus story from the Second to Fourth Books of Moses in the Old Testament, a story whose visual representation was evidently not so familiar to contemporaries that explanatory captions could have been dispensed with. (...)

Marco Popp, Hartmut Scholz: St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Masterpieces of Stained Glass, Volume 6, Schnell & Steiner Publishing House / Regensburg, 2016 / pp. 52–58