Wedding Feast of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Louis of Thuringia in the Wartburg, inner left wing of an altarpiece made for the Great Church in Dordrecht, Scenes from the life of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary. On the right in the foreground the engagement with Duke Lodewijk van Thüringen and Hessen in the garden. On the left the wedding supper on the Wartburg in which also King Andreas, the father of the bride, and the mother of the groom participated. Three musicians with flutes and a trumpet make music at the banquet. In the background a landscape with castles and the buildings of a city
Wedding Feast of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Louis of Thuringia in the Wartburg, inner left wing of an altarpiece made for the Great Church in Dordrecht, Scenes from the life of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary. On the right in the foreground the engagement with Duke Lodewijk van Thüringen and Hessen in the garden. On the left the wedding supper on the Wartburg in which also King Andreas, the father of the bride, and the mother of the groom participated. Three musicians with flutes and a trumpet make music at the banquet. In the background a landscape with castles and the buildings of a city. Elisabeth, accompanied by two servants Gutha and Isentrudis, promises obedience and chastity to her spiritual leader Koenraad van Marburg. Inside of the left panel is part of two panels, painted on both sides with representations from the life of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (1207-31) and the Saint Elisabeth flood 18-19 November 1421, the wife and widow of the Landgrave of Thuringia, and Franciscan Tertiary, Elisabeth of Hungary, possible attributes: beggar, cripple, fish, loaves, leper, model of church, pitcher, roses in lap, scald-head, three crowns, wedding feast, wedding meal, Wartburg, Louis IV of Thuringia, Master of the St Elizabeth Panels, c. 1490 - c. 1495, panel, oil paint (paint), support: h cm × w cm
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