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 / Undeterred by a vicious dog, Walburga visits and heals the sick daughter of a landowner

Further details

The dogs surrounding Walburga point to this episode - however, in the bed is not the sick daughter but an old man - perhaps her father who greeted Walburga at her arrival.

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. EBf

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