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Ottobeuren: 18th C. Monastery in Central Europe
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| Title | Ottobeuren: 18th C. Monastery in Central Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Province/County | Bavaria |
| City | Ottobeuren |
| Continent | Europe |
| Media | architecture |
| Century | 18th Century |
| Subject 1 | Religion, Piety and Spirituality |
| Subject 2 | Arts and Architecture |
| Keywords | monasteries, architecture, religious life, religious houses, church. |
| Description | Ottobeuren: 18th c. monastery in central Europe. Prosperity was one reason for the church and monastery building that swept across Austria and Bavaria in the 18th c., but also, but another was counter reformation ideology, the struggle over ideas. A committed and didactic art in the south, an appeal to the senses abjured in the north. Color, form symbolism and drama, are all raised to an emotional pitch such as rarely attempted in Western architecture before. The message is a joyful one, and churches are gay. Ottobeuren is a true product of union of all the arts. Flowing spaces conceived by Johann Michael Fischer are reinterpreted in their own media by his stuccoists, carpenters and painters. Veined columns against pure white walls spell out the geometrical scheme; gold acanthus leaves lap around the meeting of planes; groups of ecstatic angels rise at key points, such as the spring of arches; shallow domes are transformed into vistas of the supernatural and beckon the worshiper towards the drama of the high alter. |
| Original Source | TBCompleted |
| Secondary Source | Ian Richards, Abbeys of Europe, p. 163. |
| Contributors | R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear |
| Format | jpg |
| Slide ID | ae_17 |
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