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Original fileLocated on a pillar in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino, this work displays a muscular figure of Isaiah holding an unfurled Hebrew scroll, flanked by two putti. Below, a marble niche contains a sculptural group of Saint Anne seated with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, who holds the infant Jesus. The base features a prominent Latin inscription dedicated by the humanist patron Johann Goritz.
This commission by the humanist Janus Corycius embodies the Renaissance synthesis of Hebrew prophecy and Christian theology. The inscription's reference to a 'place in the stars' reflects Neoplatonic ideas regarding the soul's ascent, while the prophet Isaiah represents the 'Prisca Theologia' or ancient wisdom that foreshadowed Christian revelation.
Scroll: פִּתְח֣וּ שְׁעָרִ֑ים וְיָבֹ֥א גוֹי־צַדִּ֖יק שֹׁמֵ֥ר אֱמֻנִֽים Pedestal: IESV DEO DEIQ. FILIO MATRI VIRGINI ANNE AVIE MATERNE IO CORICIVS EX GERMANIS LVCVMBVRG PROT APOST DDD PERPETVO SACRIFICIO DOTEM VASA VESTES TRIBVIT MDXII VESTRA LOCVM VT PIETAS ALIQVEM POST REDDAT IN ASTRIS
Translation
Scroll: Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in (Isaiah 26:2). Pedestal: To Jesus, God and Son of God, to the Virgin Mother, and to Anne the maternal grandmother, Johann Goritz of the Germans from Luxembourg, Apostolic Protonotary, gave and dedicated this as a gift for a perpetual sacrifice, and provided vessels and vestments, 1512. So that your piety may return some place in the stars.
Egidio da Viterbo
The Augustinian General and Neoplatonist whose theological programs in Rome emphasized the continuity between Hebrew prophecy and Christian truth.
Isaiah
The Old Testament prophet whose messianic visions were a cornerstone for Renaissance theological art.
Object
Oil on panel
religious
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