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St. John Monastery Church, Müstair

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January 31, 2023

St. John's Monastery Church, Müstair

The church is part of the Benedictine monastery of St. John, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983. The master's fresco cycle is the most extensive and best preserved example of the few remaining wall paintings from the Carolingian period. It was probably created between 785 and 795. The cycle originally covered the choir and all the walls of the church in five horizontal stripes.

A large part of the Carolingian paintings remained in their original state, as the church complex was never destroyed and only changed piece by piece. The master's works were repainted in high medieval style around 1200. Some of the scenes on the west wall were lost around 1500 when a gallery was built. The frescoes were whitewashed around 1200, rediscovered in 1884 and uncovered mainly from 1947 to 1951. The east wall and pictures in the three apses remained in their painted over form.

The master shows a series of scenes from the Old Testament about King David and from the life of John the Baptist. The pictures mainly tell the life and passion and the resurrection of Christ. The painter was thus able to present a Christian story of salvation to the mostly illiterate viewer in pictures.

A comparison of the master's works with later overpaintings shows the development of early medieval painting with its fine ochre and red tones around 800 to the stronger color scheme in bright colors of the High Middle Ages around 1200.

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St. John Monastery Church, Müstair

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