Wedding Feast of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Louis of Thuringia in the Wartburg, inner left wing of an altarpiece made for the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht
Painter: Master of the St Elizabeth Panels
Year:
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Medium: oil on panel
Description: Scenes from the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. On the right in the foreground the engagement to Duke Louis of Thuringia and Hesse in the garden. On the left, the wedding banquet at the Wartburg in which King Andrew, the bride's father, and the groom's mother also took part. Three musicians with flutes and a trumpet make music at the banquet. In the background a landscape with castles and the buildings of a town. Elisabeth, accompanied by two servants Gutha and Isentrudis, promises obedience and chastity to her spiritual leader Koenraad of Marburg. Inside left panel, part of two panels, painted on either side with representations from the life of St. Elisabeth of Hungary (1207-31) and the St. Elisabeth Flood November 18-19, 1421 (SK-A-3145/46 and SK-A-3147A/B).