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)
Life of Christ / Ministry / Parables / The Wise and Foolish Virgins / The Wise Virgins refuse to share their oil with the Foolish Virgins / Adaptations

Further details

Inscription: De oleo vestro (Mt. 25:8). Here, the scene is re-interpreted so that the foolish virgins do not ask in vain the prudent virgins for oil, but they rather stand for the faithful asking to be strengthened with the oil of St Walburga (Corpus)

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. 107f., no. 11

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