Michaela Šeferisová Loudová
„MERKWÜRDIGE THATEN […] BESONDERS ABER DIE ERBAUUNG DER BIBLIOTHEC“. DIE DECKENGEMÄLDE DER BIBLIOTHEKSSÄLE DES SCHLOSSES IN KROMERIZ/KREMSIER UND IHR BEZUG ZU DEN FRESKEN DER WIENER HOFBIBLIOTHEK
in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Denkmalpflege Jhg. LXI/2007/Heft 4
Abstract:
Michaela Šeferisová Loudová
The library frescoes from Kremsier Palace and their connection with the Hofbibliothek in Vienna
The painter Daniel Gran created one of his greatest works from 1726–1730, the frescoes of the magnificent Hofbibliothek in Vienna. In 1737, Salomon Kleiner and Jeremias Jacob Sedelmayr published an album introducing the interior of the court library, including a printed reproduction of Gran’s „apotheosis of Karl VI“. These pages would later become a source of inspiration to other painters and patrons. One of numerous examples of the use of these motifs is the library of the Kremsier Palace, today in the Czech Republic. In 1759, Leopold Friedrich von Egkh, Archbishop of Olmütz, commissioned the artist Josef Stern to paint frescoes in the library’s two large rooms. In the larger room, two archbishops who had been important to the history of the library, Karl von Liechtenstein-Castelcorn and Leopold Friedrich von Egkh, are glorified in an apotheosis. The smaller room boast a fresco depicting the birth of Minerva. With the adoption of Gran’s famous frescoes in the second half of the 18th century another question arises: what connection is there between this adoption and Winckelmann’s work „Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei and Bildhauerkunst“ which was published in 1755?