Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Eichstätt / St. Walburg / Obere Gruft (upper chapel behind high altar) / Parapet

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Walburga (OSB) / Cycles / Eichstätt, St. Walburg, Obere Gruft (Johann Thaddäus Sauter, 1741)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Walburga (OSB) / Life / Blessed as abbess
The Church / Liturgy / Roman Rite / Sacramentals / Benediction of an abbess

Further details

The Corpus describes this scene as Clothing of St Walburga. However, the prominence of the crozier and the handing over of a book (probably the Rule of St Benedict) and a key suggest that it is rather her installation into an office

Artist or creator

Sauter, Johann Thaddäus (1704-1759)

Date

1741

Location

Eichstätt, St. Walburg

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 13, Munich 2008, p. 100, no. EBc

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