Ceiling fresco in the crown gate of the Dresden Zwinger
The ceiling fresco in the crown gate of the Dresden Zwinger was a baroque fresco. The painting was destroyed in 1945. The painter is unknown.
description
The fresco showed in the foreground the spring sacrifice of the flora richly adorned with flower branches and festoons . In addition, sacrificial implements and golden vases were arranged by Cupid for a festival. Heroes, hunters and nymphs who belong to the flora kingdom come to the festival of sacrifice. Graces and the Hesperid nymphs scatter the blossoms of the orange trees - mixed with roses - on a smoke altar of the goddess Flora. Mars - emerged from a flower - adds its victorious crown braided by Venus . Field gods are also present and want to attend the festival of flora. Flora hovers above everything - hugged by Zephyros - and awards various wreaths to the heroes. August the Strong appears here as a hero who appears as the bearer of the apples of the Hesperides. Opposite are the goddesses of spring, who drive away winter. The garden art, which transforms every season into spring, helps spring.
Through an open round eye in the false ceiling, it was also possible to see the picture from the lower passage.
James Schumann mentions the painter Torelli among others : "The beautiful rooms of the Zwinger were originally intended for playrooms and dining rooms, in which there are ceiling paintings by Sylvester, Torelli, Fehling and Pellegrini."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Hempel, The Zwinger in Dresden. Principles and fates of his artistic creation , Berlin 1961, p. 87.
- ^ Fritz Löffler: The Zwinger in Dresden , chapter: The program of sculpture and ceiling painting , page 56. VEB EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig, 1976.
- ↑ James Schumann (Ed.), Dresden under the government of Koenig Anton Clemens I , Dresden 1829, p. 105