Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Ettal / Abbey St. Mariae Himmelfahrt / Nave - Dome / North: Benedictine Monks

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / John of Matha / 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)) / Monks (Benedictines and other orders following St Benedict's rule)

Further details

Identification uncertain. Corpus, p. 306, suggests St John of Matha rather than St Leonard because of the missing abbatial insignia - however, John would normally be shown as a Trinitarian

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, p. 91

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