Fool's Staircase

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Detail of the Fool's Stairway (on the Pantalone's donkey)

The Fools' Staircase is one with trompe l'oeil of the Renaissance out schmücktes staircase in the so-called Italian cultivation of Trausnitz . The staircase is the only monumental image in this style and at the same time the earliest representation of Italian drama north of the Alps.

Emergence

The design of the wall painting with life-size people was commissioned in 1575 by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria, who had lived in Landshut-Trausnitz since 1568, after his impoverishment and the departure of an acting troupe who were engaged at court. The paintings were then designed by Friedrich Sustris and executed by Alessandro Paduano from 1575 to 1579 . The paintings were partially destroyed by fire in 1961, but have been restored.

Motifs

On the fool's staircase are the Venetian merchant Pantalone riding a donkey in the form of a ridiculous old lover, followed by his servant Zanni with an enema syringe , and other figures from the Italian Commedia dell'arte , including a doctor with a urinary glass .

literature

  • Herbert Brunner, Elmar D. Schmid, Brigitte Langer: Landshut, Trausnitz Castle. Official leader. 9th, revised and redesigned edition. Bavarian Palace Administration , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-932982-51-7 .
  • Walter Wegner: A drawing of the fool's staircase on the Trausnitz in Landshut. In: Negotiations of the historical association for Lower Bavaria. Vol. 88, 1962, ISSN  0342-247X , pp. 98-103.
  • Friedrich v. Zglinicki : Uroscopy in the fine arts. An art and medical historical study of the urine examination. Ernst Giebeler, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-921956-24-2 , p. 123 f.
  • Georg Beck: The Fool's Staircase at Trausnitz Castle. In: Our Bavaria. Local supplement of the Bayerische Staatszeitung. Volume 21, No. 2, 1972, p. 11 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the administration of the Bavarian Palaces
  2. ^ Rainer Rückert : Franz Anton Bustelli. Recordings by Max Hirmer . Hirmer, Munich 1963, p. 19.
  3. ↑ See: Karl Vocelka : Habsburg Weddings 1550–1600. Cultural-historical studies on the Mannerist Representation Festival (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 65). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1976, ISBN 3-205-08569-8 , p. 60.
  4. ↑ Friedrich v. Zglinicki : Uroscopy in the fine arts. An art and medical historical study of the urine examination. Ernst Giebeler, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-921956-24-2 , p. 123 f.