Liliana Krantz-Domasłowska

Das Mosaik am Dom in Marienwerder

The article discusses the mosaic found above the vestibule (originally above the portal) on the south side of the cathedral in Kwidzen, depicting the torture of Saint John the Evangelist and the donator, which has - along with the unpreserved mosaic in Malbork - certain connections to the mosaic on the golden gate of Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague. According to the original inscriptions, the donator depicted in Kwidzen is Bishop Jan I Mnich (1378-1409), who studied in Prague from the year 1365. The mosaic originates from around 1380 and the literature reveals two points of view. The first connects it to the workshop working on the Golden Gate, and the second attributes it to artists who came from Venice on invitation of the grand masters of an order of German knights.

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