Dom-Custos 1490
A record dated June 8, 1490, regarding payment to the painter Sigmund Haring for the creation of two clock faces, painted on fresh plaster in Freising.
Freising, Diözesanarchiv, Dom-Custos-Rechnungen, Nr. 9853. Quoted from: Hans Ramisch, Meister Sigmund Haring, Maler und Bürger in Freising, nachgewiesen 1451–1491. Archivalische Nachrichten und darin bezeugte Werke, Sammelblatt des Historischen Vereins Freising 42, 2012, pp. 61–92 (90).1
A record by a diocesan official from the diocesan archive in Freising, Bavaria, which mentions the creation of two dials on fresh lime plaster by the painter Sigmund Haring, is among the oldest written accounts of the use of the fresco technique north of the Alps.
„Item Sigmund Maler hat die zwen Zaiger von newem wider vergult dedi Ib. den 2 Auch hab ich im von den zwain Horen in frischem Tünch gemalt bezalt Ib. den. 2“