Hall of Grotesques (Vienna)

Austria / Wien / Vienna / Rennweg
 Baroque (architecture), interior designer
Decorating ‘‘sale terrene’’ and garden pavilions with painted grotesques on the walls and ceiling was very popular in Vienna in the early eighteenth century. Augsburg-born painter Jonas Drentwett adorned the ceiling of the Lower Belvedere’s Hall of Grotesques with the Four Seasons and the Four Elements (in the corners). The windowless walls show Vulcan’s Forge and the Three Graces embodying masculine and feminine principles. The majority of these paintings have been preserved in their original condition. However, the wall facing the Privy Garden was hit by a bomb in 1945 and thus required restoration.
The place is located in Lower Belvedere (Unteres Belvedere)
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Coordinates:   48°11'49"N   16°22'44"E
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