Italians visiting
Würzburg Residenz will have a great opportunity to admire some of the
masterpieces of their famous compatriots Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Antonio Bossi ...
Treppenhaus (Staircase)QUOTE
... Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, summoned specially from Venice for the purpose, decorated the vault in 1752/53 with the largest ceiling fresco ever painted. With great artistic sensitivity he depicted the exotic, magical worlds of the continents of America, Asia and Africa, personified by regal female figures. The highlight of the composition is the allegory of Europe with the Würzburg court as a centre of the arts. The painting, which measures around 600 square metres, is fused into a whole with the sky inhabited by the ancient gods in the centre ...