Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Eichstätt / St. Walburg / Untere Gruft (lower chapel behind high altar)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Groups of Biblical Scenes chosen for specific motifs / Oil / Eichstätt, St. Walburg, Untere Gruft (after Vitus Joseph Greitmann, second half 18th century)
Old Testament / Exodus / The Israelites in the Desert / Moses strikes water from the rock (Exod. 17:6-7)
Old Testament / Deuteronomy / Moses's last actions and words (Dtn. 31-33) / Canticum Moysis (Audite caeli, Dtn. 32)

Further details

Inscription: Oleum de saxo durissimo (Dtn. 32:13). This scene is included in a cycle about oil because the oil came out of the dry relics of St Walburga as the water came out of the dry rock

Artist or creator

German (southern) after
Greitmann, Vitus Joseph (born 1712, died after 1757)

Date

18th century (second half)

Location

Eichstätt, St. Walburg

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 13, Munich 2008, p. 104f., no. 2

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