Iconography

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Germany / Ettal / Abbey St. Mariae Himmelfahrt / Nave - Dome / South: Benedictine Nuns

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Beatrix de Silva
Saints / Saints A - Z / Gertrude of Helfta (OSB) / Single figure / holding burning heart
Saints / Saints A - Z / Mechthild of Hackeborn (OCist) / Single figure / holding a burning heart
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)) / Nuns (Benedictines and other orders following St Benedict's rule)

Further details

The nuns in blue are probably (although the habit is not correct) Conceptionists who originally followed the Cistercian rule. Fischer identifies the nun with liles as the foundress, Beatrix de Silve, the Corpus rather that with the crozier, the nun with the burning heart is Mechthild or Gertrud)

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. 113

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