Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Altomünster / Octagon / Dome painting

HISTORY

Modern / German lands / Bavaria / - George the Rich gives Altomünster to the Bridgetines

PORTRAITS

Aristocrats / Holy Roman Empire / Counts / Sandizell / Eva
Aristocrats / Holy Roman Empire / Counts / Sandizell / Wolfgang (d. 1525)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

The Church / Church History / History of Individual Dioceses, Orders and Monasteries / Monasteries / Altomünster (OSB, later OSsS) / Altomünster given to the Bridgetines (1497)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Coats-of-Arms / Holy Roman Empire / Lower Nobility and Patricians / Sandizell

Further details

George the Rich and his spouse Jadwiga grant the former Benedictine convent Altomünster to the Bridgetines, at the right his official Wolfang of Sandizell with his wife Eva, both of whom joined the Bridgetine order, at the far right the Sandizell arms

Artist or creator

Mages, Josef (1728-1769)

Date

1767

Location

Altomünster, St. Alto

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 5, Munich 1996, pp. 28-32, no. A

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