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 / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / Multiplication of oil (4 Kings 4:1-7) / The woman pours oil, which does not run out, into many vessels (4 Kings 4:4-5)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:2b: Sponsa: Oleum effusum nomen tuum, ideo adolescentulae dilexerunt te (Bride: Thy name is as oil poured out, therefore young maidens have loved thee) / Second part of verse: Oleum effuusum nomen tuum (Thy name is as oil poured out)

Further details

Inscription: Oleum effusum (Cant. 1:2)

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. 105f., no. 5

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