Saint Ann

Depicted is Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary, who is standing and holding her daughter Maria, who is depicted in a childishly reduced manner, on her right arm and carrying the naked Christ child on her left arm. Anna is characterized by her wide cloak with a head veil as a matron, she holds her head up and looks straight ahead, facing the viewer, she is frontal aligned; Mary and the Christ Child sit opposite each other and lay a hand on the pages of the open psaltery as a sign of their literacy, while Christ, with a bowed upper body, strives towards Mary, giving way in astonishment to what Christ's reading of the scriptures to Mary is interpreted to mean; Representation in the typical iconography of late gothic, but in the garb of the early Baroque (drape all clothes) and open hair of Mary.