Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Benediktbeuern / Monastic buildings / Alter Festsaal / Ceiling - Frame - Elements

GODS AND MYTHS

Cybele / Single figure / With lions / Not in chariot
Cybele / Allegories / of Earth (Element)

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

The Elements / Cycles / Cycles of four / As separate allegories or personifications / Benediktbeuern, Kloster, Alter Festsaal (Kaspar Amort, Stephan I and Michael Kessler, 1674-1675)
The Elements / Individual / Earth

Further details

Freely after Sebastianus Franciscus et Philippus Constantius ... de Tassis, Philosophia Sacro-Profana Logicam, Physicam, et Metaphysicam Disputationem Complexa, Praeside Ferdinando Visler, Dilingae (Mayer) 1664, plate facing p. 71

Artist or creator

Amort, Kaspar, the Elder (1612-1675) and
Kessler, Stephan I (1622-1700)

Date

1674 - 1675

Location

Benediktbeuern, Kloster

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 2, Munich 1981, pp. 80, 86-87, no. E4

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Web resources

Photo on external webpage
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (printed model)

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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