(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	ARCHITECTURE
	Germany
	→ Benediktbeuern → Monastic buildings → Alter Festsaal → Ceiling - Centre
	GODS & MYTHS
	Amoretti
	→ Amoretti harvesting vintage
	MAGIC & SCIENCE
	Time
	→ Seasons → Combined in a single image
	Flora and Fauna
	→ Plants and flowers → Tulip
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Images of Christ
	→ Allegories → Christ as gardener
	→ Allegories → Fons vitae (Crucified Christ or Man of Sorrows filling fountain with His blood)
	Angels
	→ Various activities → Gardening
	SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
	Death
	→ Allegories → Death raking together bones

	Further details
	Botany: Christ as gardener in the garden of the soul watered by His blood, at the walls of the garden the Four Seasons, outside death
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Kessler, Stephan I (1622-1700) and Storer, Johann Christoph (c1620-1671) By Stephan I and Michael (born 1749, died after 1706) Kessler, after engravings by Matthäus Küsel (1629-c1681) following designs by Storer
	DATE
	circa 1675
	LOCATION
	Benediktbeuern, Kloster

	Notes on photograph
	COLLECTION
	Digital only
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, vol. 2, Munich 1981, pp. 83, 86, no. A4. After an engraving in the dissertation Sebastianus Franciscus et Philippus Constantius ... de Tassis, Philosophia Sacro-Profana Logicam, Physicam, et Metaphysicam Disputationem Complexa, Praeside Ferdinando Visler, Dilingae (Mayer) 1664, plate facing p. 97

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	RELATIONS
	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (printed model)

	Acknowledgements
	Photographed with kind permission of the monastery - for downloading a high-resolution image please contact The Warburg Institute.

	Contact
	For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk