Wall painting at Maulbronn on the eastern end wall of the ground floor of the building formerly known as the 'Parlatorium' and now thought to have served as the Lady Chapel which was built at an angle eastwards from the east cloister range during the abbacy of Johannes Burrus in 1495 under the lay brother Konrad von Schmie. The centre shows the enthroned Virgin and Child with a nimbed abbot kneeling with hands clasped and carrying croziers on either side, St Benedict in black on the right, and Bernard in grey on the left. The coat of arms, now barely visible, of the duke of Wuerttemberg was added below the Virgin sometime after 1504.
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