Nine Worthies

Nine Good heroes designates a literary and art historical topos, which was first erected at the beginning of the 14th century in a French epic poem from the courtly and chivalric milieu as a list of the ideal knight.

Canon

This first all-male team consists of

  • Three pagan heroes of antiquity: Hector of Troy,
  • Alexander the Great,
  • Julius Caesar;
  • Judas Maccabaeus,
  • King David,
  • Prophet Joshua;
  • King Arthur,
  • Charlemagne,
  • Godfrey of Bouillon.

In the conventional stringing the Jews among the Gentiles, and the Christians are.

Design history

The nine heroes attracted as an art historical motif throughout Europe in the town halls and government offices in order to remind the councilors or officials in a "good government " ( typical time Rathausikonographie ). In Cologne City Hall, the earliest representation of the Nine Heroes is mounted in the German-speaking area: Nine -than-life stone sculptures in Gothic Fialwerk decorate the southern cress the magnificent Gothic Prunksaal ( Hansesaal ). Built in 1385-96 to the Parlier and stonemason Heinrich Beheim Beautiful fountain in Nuremberg shows the nine heroes in the context of philosophy, the seven liberal arts, the four evangelists, four Church Fathers, the seven electors, of Moses and other prophets seven ( original parts in the Germanic Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg ).

The "Nine - hero - cycle " also shows a unique Lüneburg glass window in the so-called courtroom at City Hall ( 1410 arose ). In the Swiss Misery ( canton of Fribourg ), a cycle was a large area painted around 1478 in the mansion on the wall. Only five instead of nine heroes, the tapestry of the Historical Museum of Basel ( 1490 ). It shows that chivalrous ideas were transported to the urban culture. A famous series of engravings is delivered out of the hand of the Augsburg artist Hans Burgkmair ( 1516).

There was a list of the nine best women or " Nine Good heroines " set up in the wake of the unilateral gender-based selection and considered in the arts: as the life-size Frenchified portraits of nine heroines in the company of nine heroes of Baron's hall of the castle of Manta, Saluzzo (Piedmont) with its well-known fable of Arms ( Fabelheraldik ) or at the Maison chamber cell, a beautiful Strasbourg half-timbered house, whose carvings along the window and corner posts on the facade of the cathedral on the west side next to musicians also shows nine heroes and heroines.

Literary topos Paganism Old Testament Germanisches Nationalmuseum Castello della Manta Attributed arms Barbara Schock-Werner
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