Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

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

GESTURES AND EXPRESSION

Vomiting

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
Flora and Fauna / Birds / Heron

Further details

Perhaps a play on the German word for heron ('Reiher') and a colloquial expression for vomiting ('reihern'), cf. Grimm, Deutxches Wörterbuch, vol. 14, cols. 661-662

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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