<p style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">St Barbara of Nicomedia was invoked if there was a fire or if lightning struck. She was also the patron saint of dangerous professions, including firefighters. These 15th-century moulds were discovered when Utrecht’s city walls were excavated in the mid-19th century. The simple pipeclay figurines that were cast with these moulds were inexpensive and would have been purchased by many people.</span></p>
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St Barbara of Nicomedia was invoked if there was a fire or if lightning struck. She was also the patron saint of dangerous professions, including firefighters. These 15th-century moulds were discovered when Utrecht’s city walls were excavated in the mid-19th century. The simple pipeclay figurines that were cast with these moulds were inexpensive and would have been purchased by many people.
Gevonden in 1844 in de wal bij de Tolsteegpoort in Utrecht. Afdruk in pijpaarde. Zie Burkhard Meier in Tijdschrift Westfalen 1916, blz. 10 afb. 6 Pl. 14.
Documentation
Beeldhouwkunst tot 1850. De verzamelingen van het Centraal Museum Utrecht [cat. nrs. 1-243], Jan Klinckaert, (Utrecht, 1997), p. 362, cat. nr. 150, met afb.
Catalogus van het Historisch Museum der stad [1928, cat. nrs. 2891-4142], W.C. Schuylenburg, (Utrecht, 1928), cat. nr. 3476, afb. 23
Catalogus van het Museum van Oudheden [1878], door S. Muller Fz.. S. Muller Fz., (Utrecht, 1878), cat. nr. 856
Exhibitions
De gezonde stad , Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2022
Made in Utrecht. Meisterwerke mittelalterlicher Bildhauerkunst 1430-1530, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aken, 2013
Ontsnapt aan de beeldenstorm, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 2012 - 2013
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