DIE WüRZBURGER RESIDENZ

Museum Pictures of the title collage: Gianbattista Tiepolo, Prince-Bishop Carl Philipp of Greifenklau, 1750-53, fresco painting in the stairway of the baroque castle

With his festive, enthralling illusion-evoking painting, Tiepolo created one of the most impressive picture-cycles of the of the Occident. (In 1981 the residence was declared a world cultural heritage by the UNESCO.) Music and the fine arts on the other hand were still closely combined in the presentation of a common worldly understanding at the European courts. Just like the paintings of the Venetian Tiepolo, the lively music of Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni B. Platti, Antonio Vivaldi and Baldassare Galuppi enchanted Europe's royal society