Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Augsburg / Dom / Marienkapelle / Dome - Seasons and lantern

GODS AND MYTHS

Saturn / Allegories / of Winter

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Time / Seasons / Cycles / - Hans Georg Bergmüller and Francesco de Gabrieli (Augsburg, Dom, Marienkapelle, Seasons and Marian feasts)
Time / Seasons / Individual / Winter

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Ecclesiasticus / Ecclus 43:20: Pulchritudinem candoris ejus admirabitur oculus (The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof)
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Immaculate Conception / Virgin Mary alone crushing the serpent's head
Virgin Mary / Devotions to the Virgin Mary / Feasts of the Virgin Mary - Cycles / Augsburg, Dom, Marienkapelle (Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1721, Marian feasts in the Four Seasons)

Further details

Largely destroyed in World War II, reconstructed in 1987-1988 based on prints by Hieronymus Sperling in Bergmüller's 1723 Anthropometria

Artist or creator

Bergmüller, Johann Georg (1688-1762)

Date

1721

Location

Augsburg, Dom

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Denis A. Chevalley, Der Dom zu Augsburg (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, NS 1), Munich 1995, pp. 335-338

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Web resources

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Copy in the Anthropometria)

Rights and Permissions

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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