Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

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

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Bruno / Single figure
Saints / Saints A - Z / John Gualbertus (CVUOSB) / Single figure
Saints / Saints A - Z / Romuald of Camaldoli / 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

Joannes Gualbertus is probably the monk in black with a skull, Bruno the monk in white with a skull; the monk with the overflowing bowl might be some Romuald who wept for forty years for his sins, but he is more commonly shown in white

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

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