Design for a Wall Panel or Ceiling with The Virgin and Saints Interceding before Christ for the Souls of the Lost
Johann Baptist Enderle German
Not on view
This study was acquired as part of an effort to better represent drawings made by artists in southern Germany during the Rococo period, when sculptors and painters contributed greatly to the overall effect of the sumptuous architecture of palaces and Catholic churches. This delicately colored sheet was the modello for the main ceiling of the Church of Saint John the Baptist in Lauingen, Bavaria. The fresco, which mostly follows the drawing, was completed in 1771. The biblical quotation in the cartouche at bottom center, "Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing," is a humorous warning to the ceiling's patron that payment is to be made in full.
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