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Abbey Church of Ottobeuren, Abbey Buildings

Description: The three-story abbey buildings and the inner courtyard are shown in this view. The buildings are decorated with quoins and simple pediments on some windows and less elaborate linear decoration around other windows. A small fountain is situated in the center of the courtyard.
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Date: 1737/1766
Creator: Fischer, Johann Michael
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Abbey Church of Ottobeuren, Imperial Hall of Statues of Hapsburg Emperors

Description: The hall is highly decorated with sculptural details on the walls and ceilings. The ceiling also contains a painted scene. Lining the room are over life size statues of the Hapsburg emperors situated next to elaborate Corinthian columns. The room is opulent and above each window is a painted portrait.
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Date: 1737/1766
Creator: Fischer, Johann Michael
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Abbey Church of Ottobeuren, Library

Description: The interior of the library is decorated in a Baroque style with ceiling painting, columns with Corinthian capitals. The ceiling includes a pale pink hue topped with a white relief floral motif.
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Date: 1737/1766
Creator: Fischer, Johann Michael
Location: None
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Abbey Church of Ottobeuren

Description: The view is straight up into the cupolas and shows the paintings with their relief texture encircling the frescoes. The arrangement of the subject matter in the paintings enhances the cupola shape. The subject matter appears to be scenes from the the life of St. Benedict, the Pentecost, and redemption.
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Date: 1737/1766
Creator: Fischer, Johann Michael
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Young Lady with a Fan

Description: Portrait of a seated woman wearing a green dress and holding a fan. There is a book on a table to her left and a window in the background.
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Date: 1737
Creator: Vanderlyn, Pieter
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Nouvelles Poesies Morales sur Les Plus Beaux Airs de la Musique Francoise et Italienne avec la Basse.: Fables Choisies Dans le gout de M. De La Fontaine, Sur des Vaudevilles & petits Airs aisés à chanter, avec leur Basse & une Basse en Musette. Recueil I. 6 liv. broché.

Description: This score is a collection of poetry and set to music including moral fables (marked on the table of contents with an asterisk). Each piece has words written with musical lines in treble, bass, or a combination of both. Includes a preface ('Avis.') and table of contents for the movements prior to page 1 for each of the seven collections ('recueil'). The pagination restarts for each collection and for the fables which fall at the end of each section.
Date: 1737
Creator: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
Partner: UNT Music Library
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