God de Vader: een intrigerend beeld uit de Sint-Walburgiskerk in Zutphen

Abstract

This booklet deals with an intrigiuing sculpture fragment representing God the Father found in 2018 in the church of St Walburga in Zutphen. In the booklet its iconography is explained and there is a discussion of how this sculpture came to be buried under the church floor. As the features of the God the father figure were left intact while the symbols of his royal status were attacked it seems that we are not dealing with a sculpture that was disfigured during the 16C iconoclasm but before. In the booklet the figure is attributed to the circle of Arnt Beeldesnider and is a rare example of this workshop fashioned in stone.