Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

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

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Hermannus Contractus (OSB)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Placidus (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)) / Monks (Benedictines and other orders following St Benedict's rule)

Further details

The saint with the sword is probably St Placidus; Fischer identifies the monk next to Placidus as the crippled Hermannus Contractus because of his awkward posture

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. 90

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