Objekt 3013
Three Heraldic Panels of a Prelate
Description
Heraldic Panel of Laurenz von Heidegg
Laurenz von Heidegg was abbot of Muri Abbey in Canton Aargau from 1508 to 1549. This panel therefore shows the shields of both Muri and Heidegg leaning against each other and towering above them that of the Habsburgs, under whose patronage the abbey then stood. The angel holding the shield is crowned with a leafy wreath. Enclosed in the crook of the abbot’s staff is a lion as symbol of Mark the Evangelist. The flag-like cloth attached to the staff is the sudarium or pannisellus («sweat cloth») with which the abbot held the shaft.
Heraldic Panel of Claude d’Allenge
Claude d’Allenge (d. 1526) of the Vaud was the last but one prior of the Benedictine monastery of St. Alban in Basel, which was dissolved in 1529. Opposite the emblem of Basel at top left is that of Bern, d’Allenge having also been provost of the Abbey of St. Johannsen in Erlach, Canton Bern. The black hat above the shield is a pointer to his status as provost. The putti on the headpiece were modelled on a drawing by Hans Wechtlin, a native of Strasbourg born in 1480/85, which is now in the Historisches Museum Bern. The arms and framing device are clearly the work of two different hands.
Heraldic Panel of the von Hewen Family
Purchased with grants from the Swiss Confederation and the Gottfried Keller-Stiftung
The panel shows the arms of a prelate belonging to the von Hewen family of the Upper Rhine, many of whose members were high-ranking clerics either in Switzerland or in the diocese of Constance.
Especially remarkable are the finely drawn angel in a cope holding the escutcheon, the very fluid mantling and the crest in the form of an ibex.
Object description
Heraldic Panel of Laurenz von Heidegg
Basel (?), 1st quarter 16th cent.
Inv. 1889.73.
Heraldic Panel of Claude d’Allenge
Basel, 1525
Inv. 1932.1110.
Heraldic Panel of the von Hewen Family
Drawing: Circle of the Master of the Housebook (active ca. 1470–1505)
Upper Rhine, ca. 1500
Inv. 1923.245.