Catalogue of the exhibition Whom are you seducing, Thamar? Iconographical Studies of Paintings in the Residenzgalerie Salzburg: 10.12.1993 - 31.01.1994 and 26.03.1994 - 30.06.1994

Collections of paintings can be studied from a great variety of aspects. One of the most essential is surely the interpretation of the Meaning of the pictures. In dealing with this theme, many aspects could not be taken into consideration, such as the question of patronage or the uncertain attribution of a painting to a particular artist, etc.; a fact of which the staff at the Residenzgalerie are only too painfully aware. Nonetheless, this description of the iconographical basis of the paintings represents a further step on the way towards a comprehensive study of the whole collection and thus also contributes to a better understanding of the pictorial world of past centuries.

Subjects: The classical World, The Old Testament, The New Testament

Artists: Bartholomäus Altomonte, Hendrik van Balen, Johann Georg Bergmüller, Sébastien Bourdon, Battista Dossi, Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Frans Francken III., Luca Giordano, Eustache Le Sueur, Nicolas Pierre Loir, Johann Charl Loth, Alessandro Magnasco, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Kaspar Memberger, Jean François Millet, Giacomo del Po, Johann Michael Rottmayr, Francesco Solimena, Pierre Subleyras, Jan Weenix d. J., etc.

Author:  Gabriele Groschner
Owner and publisher:  Residenzgalerie Salzburg
Year of publication:  1993
Language:  English, German, Italien
Number of pages:  212
Illustrations in color:  92
Illustrations in black and white:  4
Book size:  21 x 21 cm