The Rood Screen of Lübeck Cathedral

The wooden balustrade of the rood screen adorned with statues of saints comes from Notke’s workshop. The four patron saints of Lübeck Cathedral are depicted under high baldachins: St Nicholas of Myra, the Virgin Mary (here depicted as Madonna on a crescent moon), St John the Baptist, and St Blaise of Sebaste. Some of the small figures of saints on the balustrade were replaced by new ones in the nineteenth century. The clock, with its frame and inscription, dates from the seventeenth century.

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