Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Benediktbeuern / Monastic buildings / South Wing - Neuer Festsaal

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

The Elements / Cycles / Cycles of four / As separate allegories or personifications / Benediktbeuern, Kloster, Neuer Festsaal (paintings and stucco, Johann Joseph Zimmermann, 1731-1732)
The Elements / Individual / Water

Further details

The painting representing water (Neptune) has not yet been photographed - Corpus der Barocken Deckenmalerei, vol. 2, p. 110, identifies the object held by the stucco figure as a ship lantern

Artist or creator

Zimmermann, Johann Baptist (1680-1758) (and workshop)

Date

1731 - 1732

Location

Benediktbeuern, Kloster

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

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Photo on external webpage

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