Presented By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)
The Premodern Colloquium. Calvary in Kitzingen: Dragging Your Cross through Eighteenth-Century Franconia
Achim Timmermann, U-M History of Art
This paper represents the first substantial study of the image of the Kreuzschlepper (cross-dragger), a monumental roadside sculpture of Christ carrying his instrument of martyrdom to Mount Calvary only found in the cultural region of Franconia and first introduced to these lands at the end of the seventeenth century.
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