Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Birkenstein / St. Mariae Verkündigung / Paintings on the outside / Panel 5

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Paradise / Tree of Life
Old Testament / Exodus / The Tabernacle / God shows Moses templates of the tabernacle (Exod. 26:30)
Old Testament / Wisdom (A.V. Wisdom of Solomon) / Sap. 9:6: Dixisti me aedificare templum in monte sancto tuo ..., similitudinem tabernaculi sancti tui quod praeparasti ab initio (And hast commanded me to build a temple on thy holy mount ...)
Old Testament / Isaias (A.V. Isaiah) / Prophecy of the Root of Jesse (Isa. 11) / Isa. 11:1: Et egredietur virga de radice Jesse, et flos de radice ejus ascendet (And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root)
Old Testament / Ezechiel (A.V. Ezekiel) / Vision of the Temple (Ez. 40-48) / The water coming forth from the Temple (Ez. 47:1-12) / Ezechiel sees water coming out of the right-hand side of the Temple (Ez. 47:1 - liturgical paraphrase: Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a latere dextro)
Old Testament / Ezechiel (A.V. Ezekiel) / Vision of the Temple (Ez. 40-48) / The water coming forth from the Temple (Ez. 47:1-12) / Downstream, the water becomes deeper and deeper (Ez. 47:3-5)
Old Testament / Ezechiel (A.V. Ezekiel) / Vision of the Temple (Ez. 40-48) / The water coming forth from the Temple (Ez. 47:1-12) / Every soul drinking from this water will be healed
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Miraculous Images / Birkenstein / History of the Pilgrimage / In 1710, the provost of Fischbachau laid the first stone for the new church in the shape of the Holy House of Loreto, replacing the original chapel
Saints / Apostles / Paul / Epistles of Paul / Ad Romanos / Rom. 11:16: Quod si delibatio sancta est, et massa : et si radix sancta, et rami (For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Coats-of-Arms / Clergy / Monasteries, Canonries, Abbots and Provosts / Scheyern / Benedict II. Meydling (1709-1722)

Further details

The arms are probably those of Benedict Meydling, who was abbot of Scheyern (to which Fischbachau belonged) at the time of the laying of the first stone for the new church in Birkenstein

Artist or creator

Weidinger, Johann Georg (active by 1761)

Date

1761

Location

Birkenstein, St. Mariae Verkündigung

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

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Contact

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