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Saint Maurice
1250
Cathedral de Magedeburg, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

St. Maurice Coat of Plates
This carved figure, c.1250-1300, is that of one of the earliest coat-of-plate configurations. The effigy is that of St. Maurice and it can be found in the Magdeburg Cathedral, Germany.

Der Statur des heiligen Mauritius (1250–1300) tragt einen Plattenpanzer uber dem Kettenhemd.

African St. Maurice c. 1250
Emperor Otto the Great, who had already received the lance of St. Maurice from his father Heinrich 1, and who received relics from st. Maurice from where the treasures of Burgundy are stored, particularly worshipped the saint and dedicated the cathedral and archidiocese of Magdeburg to him. From there the veneration of St. Maurice spread to a wide area.
This is probabally made c. 1250 and is missing the legs. To date, it is regarded as the earliest realistic figure of an African in central europe."

Magdeburg Cathedral
In the Magdeburg Cathedral is the oldest known image depicting Saint Maurice as a Moor ( = Mauritius). The statue is carved around 1250 and shows him as an armoured knight.
It could well be, that this statue is the oldest picture of an ethnic African in Mid-Europe.

Statue of Saint Maurice, Magdeburg, Germany. c.1250

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ST. MAURICE IN MAGDEBURG (CA. 1240)
This statue of St. Maurice in Magdeburg Cathedral dates from around 1240 and was probably made by the anonymous sculptor of the well-known Magdeburg Rider

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Mathias Goll suggested in his 2013 thesis a later dating of the coat of plates-clad st maurice statue in Magdeburg on the basis of his study of transitional armour. However, his argument makes no consessions to the art-historians researching the statue for the last century comparing the statue with the other statues at the site. And until their theories are discussed, their mid century date stands. The same goes for other martial historians' attempts at re-dating it.

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Vi nevner bare kjapt at den er av Blair 1958, og senere Goll tentativt re-datert til ca 1300, men uten stotte i kunsthistoriske dateringer.
Мы лишь вкратце упомянем, что это Блер 1958 г., а позже Голл предварительно повторно датировал его примерно 1300 г., но без поддержки в датировании истории искусства.