Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Fischbachau / St. Martin / Left side aisle

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Benedict of Norcia (OSB) / Benedict as father of Western Monasticism / Benedict with Benedictine monks
Saints / Saints A - Z / Rupert / Single figure
Saints / Saints A - Z / Wolfgang / Single figure
Miscellaneous / Religious Orders / Benedictines / Cycles / Fischbachau, St. Martin (Activities of the Benedictines, Melchior Puchner, 1737-1738)
Miscellaneous / Religious Orders / Benedictines / Activities of the Benedictine order / Governance of the Church / Benedictine bishops

Further details

The bishop with the church model is probably St Wolfgang, and the object the bishop at the right points to may be a barrel of salt, pointing to St Rupert. The Corpus sees somewhere a bear, attribute of St Corbinian

Artist or creator

Puchner, Melchior (1695-1758)

Date

1737 - 1738

Location

Fischbachau, St. Martin

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 2, Munich 1981, p. 490, no. N8

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