09/10/2023
I fell in love with this beauty from the first day I saw it soon after entering the antique store. The Apostle shrunk is and will be one of my all time favorite pieces. It came with its own explanation 📜 thanks to google for the translation…to the best of its abilities 😌
“Apostle Cabinet
The stylistic elements of the hall cupboard are purely Gothic, indicative of the 14th/15th century. centuries. Only the lower Abichluk of the Schronh horpus with its round arch shows influences from the Romanesque period.
At the beginning of the 14th century, the Chinese monkey in Germany was located in the area of the church. All cabinets have come down to us mainly from Sahriftei-Ichrânhe. The Rannte community center mainly only offered chests of simple carpenter construction. Gradually, however, the cities gained power and civil culture made enormous progress. Especially the invention of the sawmill around 1320 made it possible to use thinner boards instead of the heavy, polished planks. The furniture building was given the opportunity to create a construction that had fallen into obscurity, the frames and fillings.
Here, in our Apoltell Chronicle, the fillings are designed as spike arches in which the wood-carved figures of the 12 Apoltels are located. The life-size figures of Apollo, created around 1490-1500, by the wood sculptor Lorenz served as a model for the plaques
Lucheperger, who is still in the cathedral of Vienna's Neulttodt.“
Presentation of the Apoltel from left to right:
Top row: PETER
ANDREAS
JAMES the Elder
JAMES the Younger
JOHN
PHILIPPUS
Bottom row: BARTHOLOMAUS
THOMAS
MATTHEW
JUDAS THADDAUS
JOHN
SIMON
MATHIAS
The outer steering right frames are crowned with carved finials, which are characteristic of Gothic architecture.