w:Cobweb painting of the Madonna and Child, in Chester Cathedral, painted on the web of the moth caterpillar Hyponomeuta euonymella, probably by Johann Burgman (d.1825) from the Tyrol. It is a copy of the famous "gnadenbild" (miraculous image) known as "Mariahilf", w:Mary Help of Christians, a painting by Lucas Cranach I (1472–1553) now in Innsbruck Cathedral (Church of St Jakob, "Dom zu St. Jakob"), Tyrol, Austria. Printed description attached:
The Cobweb Picture. Our Lady and the Holy Child, Jesus. The picture comes from the Tyrol and is painted on the net of the caterpillar Hyponomeuta euonymella. It is probably by the Tyrolese artist Johann Burgman (d.1825) and is a copy of a picture by Lucas Cranach I (1472–1553) now in the Church of St Jakob, Innsbruck. The painting of cobweb pictures was a flourishing art in the Tyrol from about 1750 to 1920
Date
Source
Own work
Author
user:mcginnly
Licensing
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 truetrue
You may select the license of your choice.
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents