A woodcut portrait inscribed "Brigida virgo," made for Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, showing a holy nun with hands folded in prayer within a flower chalice. Brigid of Kildare is remembered as abbess of Kildare and one of the patron saints of Ireland, associated with healing, poetry, smithcraft and hospitality, her feast falling on the day of the older festival of Imbolc. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.
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Classification
Object TypePrint (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1 Physical Form
MediumWoodcut, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Rijksmuseum 1 Medium (class) Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Depicts
The woodcut's own inscribed title, "Brigida virgo," together with its placement in the Liber Chronicarum and two independent secondary records, identify the figure as Brigid of Kildare.
Source Heilige Brigida, Rijksmuseum (workshop of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Sources
1. Heilige Brigida, Rijksmuseum (workshop of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Rijksmuseum- Rijksmuseum RP-P-2016-49-83-1
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A woodcut portrait inscribed "Brigida virgo," made for Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, showing a holy nun with hands folded in prayer within a flower chalice.
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