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Plate 1 of 50
The Defeat of Synagoga
Niederlage der Synagoge
Burgundian, c. 1400–1415
Not yet located
The drawing
A densely packed group of grotesque and costumed figures surrounds the personification of Synagoga, with selective blue and reddish coloring accenting the drawing. The subject belongs to the medieval Christian Ecclesia-and-Synagoga tradition, part of medieval Christian anti-Jewish imagery.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Burgundian, c. 1400–1415
- Title as printed
- Niederlage der Synagoge
- Title in English
- The Defeat of Synagoga
- Date
- c. 1400–1415
- Medium and size
- Brush drawing on parchment, 14.7 × 12.2 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena (acquired c. 1827 from Count Moritz von Fries, Vienna)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Not yet established beyond Becker's Burgundian attribution.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 1.
- Hermann Bunjes, “Die Skulpturen der Liebfrauenkirche in Trier”, Trierer Zeitschrift 12 (1937)https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/tz/article/download/56161/67440