Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg: The Bishop's Epitaph

@akarui: I think it's one of the most beautiful there, I especially like its depth.

@B.Held: Cheers, Brittany!

@MARIANA: New? Not really, I've got plenty of them: here, there, another one,... well..., ah, here... aaaand here! Want some more??

@dj.tigersprout: Here and then even I do b/w... :-)

@`Paul: Thanks, `Paul! It's a very long nave, this is just a part of it.

@Mike: I like the depth of this altar, it's very vivid.

@Steven: The most beautiful I found there. :-)

@JoeB: Sure, they were the bosses. :-)

@Twelvebit: Seeing at it with Catholic eyes would reveal something different: the emphasis on scholarship and remodelling (not 'reformation' - that would be a wrong term here) of the church. But in the same building you can find the holy grave-chamber, a Baroque version of Jesus' grave. Though death plays an important role here, you can also see its overcoming.

@Japanalia: If people don't obstruct the view, they sometimes can be found in my pictures. ;-)

@k@: Not so unusual; the church is open for a visit most time of the day.

@k@: I don't think the difference in time is that big: when this bishop lived, the early modern period had already begun. There was an established power (the old order, a.k.a the Catholic church, represented by this prince-bishop), attacked by an aggressive new type of religion (Protestantism) that was supported by a strengthening early middle class. Today governments built by the middle class are struggling against new enemies that fight our known order. The result of this struggle is yet open; while the protagonists of the earlier conflict have changed, the conflict itself remained the same.