Marriage Panel of Gabriel Weydacher and his wife Juliana Wemis with the Virgin and Child and Saints Barbara and Catherine. Artist: After a design by Leonhard Beck (German, 1480-1542). Culture: German. Dimensions: 17 15/16 × 29 1/4 × 3/8 in. (45.6 × 74.3 × 1 cm). Date: 1519.This heraldic panel memorializes the marriage of Gabriel Weydacher and Juliana Wemis. In 1514 Weydacher became record keeper of the vast Schwaz (Tirol, Austria) silver mines, which were financed by the Fugger family of Augsburg and were the source of great wealth for the Emperor Maximilian I. Like many other Schwaz families, whose wealth and social status derived from the silver mines, Weydacher commemorated his union by donating this armorial panel to the glazed cloister of the local Franciscan monastery, where it was installed in the window in the northeast corner. Directly opposite the window was a large wall painting commissioned by Weydacher who appears as donor supporting a shield with his arms. A Franciscan co
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