Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Partenkirchen / St. Anton / Octagon

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Fish, shellfish, and other marine creatures / Oyster

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 / Insects and other Invertebrates / Bivalve / Containing pearl

Further details

Lemma: Caute munus coeleste recondo; Dotes suas celando modestissimus. Emblem of Anthony's humility (like an oyster hiding a pearl and possibly the time spent as an hermit)

Artist or creator

Holzer, Johann Evangelist (1709-1740)

Date

1736

Location

Partenkirchen, St. Anton

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 2, Munich 1981, p. 419, no. 5

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Contact

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