Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Dillingen / St. Mariae Himmelfahrt (Studienkirche) / Nave - vault / NE section - Europe

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / The earth / Continents / Four / Cycles / Dillingen, Studienkirche (Jesuit saints in four continents, Thomas Christian Scheffler, 1751) / Europe

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Virgin Mary / Devotions to the Virgin Mary / Sodalities of Our Lady (Congregationes de B.M.V.) / Generic
Saints / Saints A - Z / Francis Borgia (SJ) / Various activities / Instructing members of a Sodality of Mary
Saints / Groups of Saints / Saints from the same order / Jesuits / Dillingen, Studienkirche (Jesuit saints on the four continents, Thomas Christian Scheffler, 1751) / Europe

Further details

The facial features suggest identification of the saint instructing the youths (probably a nascent Sodality of Mary) with St Francis Borgia, although it is not clear why he should be connected with them

Artist or creator

Scheffler, Thomas Christian (or Christoph Thomas, born 1699 or 1700, died 1756)

Date

1751

Location

Dillingen (Donau), St. Mariae Himmelfahrt (Studienkirche)

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Database 'Erdteilallegorien'

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