Zweiter Kirchheimer Sippenaltar: Emerentia und Stolanus mit Esmeria und Anna

The companion panel to the previous entry in the Master of Kirchheim's Holy Kinship altarpiece, showing Emerentia (Anne's mother), Stolanus, Esmeria, and Anna — the generational sequence from which the Virgin's lineage descended. The Holy Kinship cult was actively promoted by the Dominicans and Franciscans in the later fifteenth century as a means of deepening lay Marian devotion, and altarpieces dedicated to it were commissioned across the German-speaking territories. The programme of both panels together presents the complete genealogy of Christ's maternal line.

Compositional structure parallels the companion panel closely — symmetrically arranged standing figures against a gold ground — suggesting the two panels functioned as pendants or sequential wings. The rendering of the elder female figures, Emerentia and Stolanus, shows slightly more authority in physiognomic differentiation than the younger saints.