
Erwin Pokorny
Art historian, born in 1959 in Vienna, Austria. For more information see CV.
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From the building of the former Augustinian canon monastery of St Dorothea in Vienna (1414–1782), several architectural spolia have survived, inserted into a courtyard wall of the modern Palais Dorotheum. Three stone fragments of red marble and sandstone respectively bear the remains of Latin verse inscriptions executed in classicising Renaissance Capitals, as well as parts of a depiction of St Jerome (after an engraving by Dürer and motifs by Cranach the Elder) and a coat of arms. The authors attribute these pieces to the otherwise lost epitaph of Dr Johannes Fuchsmagen (d. 1510), a member of the council of Emperor Maximilian I and a noted Humanist and antiquarian. The authors suggest that at least one elegiac couplet carved in stone may have been composed by Konrad Celtis, an eminent Latin poet and leading figure in the contemporary Humanist circles surrounding the
Imperial court.
From the building of the former Augustinian canon monastery of St Dorothea in Vienna (1414–1782), several architectural spolia have survived, inserted into a courtyard wall of the modern Palais Dorotheum. Three stone fragments of red marble and sandstone respectively bear the remains of Latin verse inscriptions executed in classicising Renaissance Capitals, as well as parts of a depiction of St Jerome (after an engraving by Dürer and motifs by Cranach the Elder) and a coat of arms. The authors attribute these pieces to the otherwise lost epitaph of Dr Johannes Fuchsmagen (d. 1510), a member of the council of Emperor Maximilian I and a noted Humanist and antiquarian. The authors suggest that at least one elegiac couplet carved in stone may have been composed by Konrad Celtis, an eminent Latin poet and leading figure in the contemporary Humanist circles surrounding the
Imperial court.