Wrisberg epitaph

However, copies were created and subsequently hidden during the Second World War, the central one could be viewed in the south transept of Hildesheim Cathedral until January 2010.

The painting shows the heavenly realm of God and the saints and the contemporary, mundane world in two levels, which are both separated and linked.

Grace flows from the wounds of the crucified Jesus, as the second person of the Trinity (between God the Father and the Holy Spirit), into a baptismal font and the other sacraments and through them to humanity.

A long line of people emerge from a hole in the background, enter a baptismal building and leave it dressed in white, set on the way to the palace of the church.

From there they split into individuals dressed as laypeople, who receive the sacraments in their various types of life, and those who leave the bosom of the church and sink into the ground at the bottom of the picture.