Location
Slovenia, Sveta Ema
Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk (Župnijska cerkev sv. Eme)
Artwork
The pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk in Sveta Ema
Type
Pulpit
Dimensions
Height: 420 cm, width: 180 cm, depth: 130 cm
Critical History
The pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma in Sveta Ema was attributed to Joseph Straub by Sergej Vrišer.1 In the future, this attribution will have to be reconsidered, because only the sculpture of angel with the Tablets of the Law and ornaments on the balcony of the pulpit have significant characteristics of Joseph Straub style.
Components
- Carpentry
- Sculpture
- Technique(s): sawing, wood carving
- Material(s): softwood
- Sculpture
- Sculpture
- Author: Joseph Straub (Wiesensteig 1712 – Maribor 1756)
- Technique(s): wood carving
- Material(s): limewood
- Polychromy
- Polychromy
- Technique(s): water gilding
- Material(s): calcium carbonate, gold leaf, red bole, size
- Polychromy
- First repolychromy
- Technique(s): oil, oil gilding
- Material(s): metal leaf, oil
Comment
The pulpit has at least one repolychromy. Ornamentation and sculpture´s drapery imitate gold. The original polychromy of the architecture imitates marble.
The ornaments and sculptures are infected by wood-boring insects. There are some vertical cracks on architecture of the pulpit. The ground is lifting and falling off.
The pulpit was restored in 1904.2
Images
- The pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk in Sveta Ema (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The roof of the pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk in Sveta Ema, detail (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk in Sveta Ema (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The relief of the pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk in Sveta Ema (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
Catalogue entry prepared by Valentina Pavlič and Saša Dolinšek
Recommended citation: Valentina Pavlič and Saša Dolinšek, The pulpit of the Parish Church of St Hemma of Gurk in Sveta Ema, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 19/11/2025) URL
