A small hint - regarding the complicated iconography of St.Anne, see:
B.Kleinschmidt: Die heilige Anna. Ihre Verehrung in Geschichte, Kunst und
Volkstum. Düsseldorf 1930.
Best of luck
Erik Drigsdahl
At 17:30 +0100 30/01/2001, Dr. Marcus Frings wrote:
>my father - a retired teacher - is collecting the inscriptions of some
>paintings of the "Spätnazarener" Carl Müller, dated and signed 1882 in
>the St. Remigius-Church in Bonn. One cycle shows the infance of Christ,
>on the other wall the one of Mary. There is one painting with "St. Anna
>teaching Mary", the latin distichon runs as follows:
>
>CONSPICUOS PRAESTANT ALIOS BENEFACTA PARENTUM /
>TU CONTRA NATAE ... ITATE NITES.
>
>Is it known to anyone? Could it be medieval? Any hint welcome.
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