Die biblischen Magi konsultieren Herodes den Großen, König von Judäa, bei der Suche nach dem neugeborenen König der Juden. Neues Testament-Evangelium der Matthew-Szene, das auf der romanischen Steinklosterhauptstadt um 1190 v. Chr. vom Meister von San Juan de la Peña oder vom Meister von Agüero im Benediktinerkloster San Juan de la Peña in der Nähe von Jaca, Huesca, Aragon, Spanien geformt wurde.
2821 x 2821 px | 23,9 x 23,9 cm | 9,4 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
12. Juni 2011
Ort:
Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, near Jaca, Huesca province, Aragon, Spain.
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Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, near Jaca, Huesca province, Aragon, Spain: the biblical Magi, wise men or kings from the east named Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspar or Caspar, seek help from Herod the Great, King of Judea, in their search for the newborn Messiah. This New Testament scene, sculpted in about 1190 AD, shares a Romanesque cloister capital with a depiction of the Old Testament brutal murder of Abel by his brother Cain, the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Both artworks are by the same artist, known as The Master of San Juan de la Peña or Master of Agüero. The meeting between King Herod and the Magi, keen to pay homage to the new King of the Jews, is recounted by only one of the four New Testament Gospel writers, Saint Matthew. The scene preceded the Massacre of the Innocents, Herod’s attempt to eliminate a potential rival by slaughtering all male children up to two years old in the vicinity of Bethlehem. The sculpture is on one of 20 Romanesque capitals in the ruined cloister all carved by The Master of San Juan de la Peña. His art, drawn from both Old and New Testaments, tells the Bible story from the Creation to the Ascension of Christ. Taken together, the sculptures were intended to symbolise a New Jerusalem. The cloistered courtyard was built below a bulging rock overhang in the Sierra de la Pena of the Central Pyrenees for monks who had fled from the expansion of the Moorish territories in Spain. It stands on the Camino de Santiago or Way of St James Christian pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. D1009.B2139.A
