Iconography
ARCHITECTURE
Germany
→ Partenkirchen → St. Anton → Octagon
MAGIC & SCIENCE
Geography
→ Weather → Thunder and Lightning
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Saints
→ Saints A - Z → Anthony of Padua (OFM) → Emblem Cycles → Partenkirchen, St. Anton (Holzer, 1736)
SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
Emblems
→ Cycles (outside books) → Wall and Ceiling Paintings → Partenkirchen, St. Anton (Holzer, 1736, Virtues of St Anthony)
Emblems, imprese and devices - catalogue
→ Metereological phenomena → Lightning → Striking tree
→ Plants and Trees → Tree (generic) → Struck by lightning
Further details
Lemma: Frangit, et accendit; Antonius anagramma: Vi tonans. The emblem shows both an anagram of Anthony's name and alludes to his fiery sermons
ARTIST/CREATOR
Holzer, Johann Evangelist (1709-1740)
DATE
1736
LOCATION
Partenkirchen, St. Anton
Notes on photograph
COLLECTION
Digital only
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 2, Munich 1981, p. 419, no. 4
Acknowledgements
Photographed with kind permission of the Franciscan monastery at St Anton
Contact
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