"Feasting Monks"



Contrast portrait of an unknown Augustinian canon, Polling (18th C.)

A bad monastic library in the popular mind

Ink and sepia drawing by Joseph Anton Koch (1793)


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Source: Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, reproduced in J. Kirmeier, M. Treml, eds., Glanz und Ende der alten Klöster. Säkularisation im bayerischen Oberland 1803 (Munich, 1991), p. 224.