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Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus Plan within the Rochus Chapel

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

Plan within the Rochus Chapel


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus Detail view

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

Detail view


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus St. Peter

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

St. Peter


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus Image comparison with the Tucher epitaph by Hans Süß von Kulmbach (1513) in St. Sebald

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

Image comparison with the Tucher epitaph by Hans Süß von Kulmbach (1513) in St. Sebald


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus Image comparison with the Tucher epitaph by Hans Süß von Kulmbach (1513) in St. Sebald

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

Image comparison with the Tucher epitaph by Hans Süß von Kulmbach (1513) in St. Sebald


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus St. Sebald

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

St. Sebald


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus St. Sebald, detail view

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

St. Sebald, detail view


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus Image comparison / left: window in the Rochus Chapel / right: window in the town church of Hersbruck (1520)

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

Image comparison / left: window in the Rochus Chapel / right: window in the town church of Hersbruck (1520)


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
 ________________________


"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus Image comparison / left: window in the Rochus Chapel / right: window in the town church of Hersbruck (1520)

Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus

1520

Image comparison / left: window in the Rochus Chapel / right: window in the town church of Hersbruck (1520)


"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the designs of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical execution. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) was already well-established for allowing more natural light into the room. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in Rochus have survived. The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the story of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family."

All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and second to Ursula Nützel.

The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the church's conversion to Catholicism! Dr. Pablo de la Riestra Lit.: The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021
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"Saints Catherine and Barbara, as patron saints of two female members of the Imhoff family, likely also found their way into the window program. Both saints present their traditional attributes: Catherine the sword and wheel of her martyrdom, Barbara, instead of the tower, only the chalice with host, signifying her role as patron saint of the dying.

The Imhoff and Haller/Nützel coats of arms appear again in the corners. " Once again, older works by Hans von Kulmbach – in the style of the Tucher epitaph in St. Sebald – but also Wolf Traut's Artelshofen altar (Munich, Bavarian National Museum, Inv. No. R 722) appear to have served as models for the designs.

Stylistically comparable is Kulmbach's stained-glass panel depicting Mary reading (from the Annunciation?) (Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Margravial Graphic Collection, Inv. No. H62/B 238), which, according to the inscription on the reverse, can be dated to 1513 or 1518, and a roughly contemporaneous cardboard fragment of Saint Barbara as a shield bearer (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. KdZ 12507).

Source: Corpusvitrearum.de 
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html 

- Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Realization: Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Veit d. Ä., Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel), Werkstatt

Material: Glass

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Werkstatt
Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel)

Further works

Window I 2 of the Sebald Oriel window/Pfinzingfenster
Window I 2 of the Sebald Oriel window/Pfinzingfenster
The crucified Christ with Mary and John Mary and John
The crucified Christ with Mary and John Mary and John
Window nVI
Window nVI
St. Roch's Chapel / Window I / The Assumption of Mary
St. Roch's Chapel / Window I / The Assumption of Mary
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Lawrence and Stephen
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Lawrence and Stephen
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus
Rochus Chapel / Window nIII / Adoration of the Magi
Rochus Chapel / Window nIII / Adoration of the Magi
Rochus Chapel / Window III / Saints Catherine and Barbara
Rochus Chapel / Window III / Saints Catherine and Barbara
Rochus Chapel / Window IV / Saints John the Baptist and Jerome
Rochus Chapel / Window IV / Saints John the Baptist and Jerome
St. Roch Chapel / Window s IV / St. Pope
St. Roch Chapel / Window s IV / St. Pope
Rochus Chapel / Window sV / Saints Ursula and Apollonia
Rochus Chapel / Window sV / Saints Ursula and Apollonia
Rochus Chapel / Window nV / Saints Louis and Francis
Rochus Chapel / Window nV / Saints Louis and Francis
Rochus Chapel / Window sVI / Saints Anne with the Virgin and Child and Helena
Rochus Chapel / Window sVI / Saints Anne with the Virgin and Child and Helena
Rochus Chapel / Window w / Crucifixion of Christ
Rochus Chapel / Window w / Crucifixion of Christ
- Gable window -
- Gable window -

Veit d. Ä.
Hirsvogel (Hirschvogel, Hirsfogel)

Further works

Hirsvogel Epitaph
Hirsvogel Epitaph
Bamberger Fenster
Bamberger Fenster
Moses window
Moses window
Axis or east window
Axis or east window
Loeffelholz window
Loeffelholz window
Schmidmayer-Window
Schmidmayer-Window
St. Bartholomew's, chancel window no. II
St. Bartholomew's, chancel window no. II
St. Roch's Chapel / Window I / The Assumption of Mary
St. Roch's Chapel / Window I / The Assumption of Mary
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Lawrence and Stephen
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Lawrence and Stephen
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus
Rochus Chapel / Window II / Saints Peter and Sebaldus
Rochus Chapel / Window IV / Saints John the Baptist and Jerome
Rochus Chapel / Window IV / Saints John the Baptist and Jerome
Rochus Chapel / Window III / Saints Catherine and Barbara
Rochus Chapel / Window III / Saints Catherine and Barbara
St. Roch Chapel / Window s IV / St. Pope
St. Roch Chapel / Window s IV / St. Pope
Rochus Chapel / Window nV / Saints Louis and Francis
Rochus Chapel / Window nV / Saints Louis and Francis
Rochus Chapel / Window sV / Saints Ursula and Apollonia
Rochus Chapel / Window sV / Saints Ursula and Apollonia
Rochus Chapel / Window sVI / Saints Anne with the Virgin and Child and Helena
Rochus Chapel / Window sVI / Saints Anne with the Virgin and Child and Helena
Rochus Chapel / Window w / Crucifixion of Christ
Rochus Chapel / Window w / Crucifixion of Christ

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