¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
of limestone, 104J ft. high. In a row of niches above the porch, statues of Christ and the four Evangelists, by Schwanthider, are placed ; over these is a fine circular window ' and colossal figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, by the same sculp tor, decorate the ends of the gable. The walls and vaulting of the choir and transepts are covered with frescoes de signed by Gomelim, and painted by his p upils, with the exception of that of the Last Judgment, on the E. wall of the choir, which is entirely his own
as. Judge, in the midst of saints and angels ; on either side kneel the Virgin and the Baptist. On his 1. are Abraham, Noah, Moses, and David ; on his rt., Peter, James, John, and Paul. Beneath him are the angels sounding the trumpets, and the book of life and death ; on the 1. are the damned, with hell and fiends, and Satan sitting on a throne at the en trance of hell, half-robed in a mantle, and bearing the insignia of a prince of darkness ; on the rt. are the blessed; between them is the Archangel