Martyrdom of Saint Thiemo (interior); Three Kneeling Female Donors (exterior)

Before he became archbishop of Salzburg, Thiemo was known as a gifted painter and sculptor. Later generations venerated him as a patron of sculptors and metal casters. He went on the crusade of 1101 and never came back. His legend says his entrails were drawn out with a spindle, and the spindle became his usual emblem. On this panel, painted in Vienna around 1500, the executioner holds a sword. Thiemo kneels on the paving in a brocade vestment, his mitre and crozier fallen beside him, while a man in a turban swings a broad curved blade above his head. In the square behind, other prisoners are tortured at a column or hang from a beam. The outer face of the wing shows the donors, three women in white headdresses kneeling under blank, unfurling scrolls. Flaking paint has taken most of the third woman's face.