The ART thread

[FRYandBENDER]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

I think baroque is by far less full pumped of details like many other styles here in Vienna. At least the normal residential baroque facades. Its principally the windows that tell you that a building is baroque.

I somehow still can not recognize the difference between baroque and rococco. I only know the latter is more over the top. Like the interior of the Schloss Schönbrunn, the summer residence of the Habsburg emperors.

Yeah, Rococo is way over the top, especially WRT interiors.

If it looks like this......



it is probably rococo.

[Slartibartfas]

And here is my favourite baroque square in Vienna. Its one of the rare pictures I shot myself. hehe

[Slartibartfas]

Originally Posted by FRYandBENDER

I like the little church in the right hand corner. The abbey dwarfs it quite a bit.

Damn it, I put you such a magnificant baroque abbey in front of your nose and you look at that bloody little gothic town church

just kidding
I dont know much about the history of that church. I was once inside, it looks inside even smaller than from the outside. I am not sure why, I guess its that the roof is considerably higher than most parts of the interior.

[Slartibartfas]

Originally Posted by FRYandBENDER

Yeah, Rococo is way over the top, especially WRT interiors.

If it looks like this......
...
it is probably rococo.

Probably indeed
I think rococo is rather rare except for palaces or royal stuff. Its simply a bit over the top. Probably it also had been too expensive for most of the nobility.

[Slartibartfas]

I shyed not away from any effort. I hope you appreciate it. I found a large picture of that little gothic town church from above.

You know what, it probably is something special, as most town churches in my region are indeed little baroque churches with the typical Zwiebelturm ("onion towers" called like that because of their form)

[FRYandBENDER]

Wow, that is gorgeous. I might set that to my wall paper. I'm literally speechless about that picture.

[FRYandBENDER]

You keep posting pictures and your going to have to explain why there is an American southerner snooping around your town, getting drunk at night, and stealing all of your women.

[FRYandBENDER]

That is really one of the best pictures you have posted.

[Slartibartfas]

Which one? The Gothic church with a bit of the town, or the baroque square in Vienna?

[Slartibartfas]

Because you like statues as it seems. You might like these ones.

Its a series of Hercules figures. I would estimate that the size of those figures is about 4-5 meters. They surround an entrance to the Hofburg. The first four on the side of its inner court, and the last four on the outside of the Palace at the Michaelertrakt, facing the Michaelersquare.



These statues above are the work of Lorenzo Matielli. So authentic baroque works of a famous baroque artist. The latter four statues belong to the Michaelertrakt that was not built before the very late 19th century. Its a long story, although this part of the Hofburg was built that late, there existed already for a long time plans of it, made by the mastermind of Austrian baroque Fischer von Erlach (for whom also for example Matielli worked) in the style of late baroque. Those plans could not be realized because the old Burg-theatre was in the way, so it took until the old theatre was replaced by the new one at the Ring in order to make place for the enlargement of the Hofburg by the Michaelertrakt. The works even though they were carried on at the brink to the 20th century did take the Erlach plans as strong basis. To be honest, I am unable to recognize at first glance the difference between the first four and the second four ones. Perhaps you could?