Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Ettal / Abbey St. Mariae Himmelfahrt / Nave - Dome / North-East: Benedictine Popes and Cardinals

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Church Fathers / Gregory / Single figure
Saints / Saints A - Z / Petrus Damiani (OSB) / Single figure
Saints / Groups of Saints / Saints from the same order / Benedictines / Ettal, St. Mariae Himmelfahrt, Dome (Johann Jakob Zeiller, 1748-1752, most saints without individual attributes)) / Popes and Cardinals
The Church / Images of clergy or church officials / Cardinal
The Church / Images of clergy or church officials / Pope

Further details

Fischer identifies the cardinal standing amongst the popes with Petrus Damiani because of him looking at the image of Our Lady of Ettal. Another reason for this identification could be the prominence of his figure, fitting for the best-known Benedictine Cardinal

Artist or creator

Zeiller, Johann Jakob (1708-1783)

Date

1748 - 1752

Location

Ettal, St. Mariae Himmelfahrt

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 2, Munich 1981, pp. 286-288, 296-312, no. A; Pius Fischer, Der Barockmaler Johann Jakob Zeiller und sein Ettaler Werk, Munich 1964, pp. 85

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