Sala Ducale
The Sala Ducale (German: Herzogssaal ) is a hall of honor in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City . You get to it through the adjacent Sala Regia (King's Hall), the former throne room of the Pope . `
Design and use
In its original form, the Sala Ducale consisted of two rooms that Gian Lorenzo Bernini combined to form a large hall. The previously room-dividing wall is still recognizable through a wide arch, adorned with a magnificent curtain held by angels . The vault is decorated with grotesques by Raffaellino da Reggio and Lorenzo Sabatini . Most of the wall decorations were created by the Flemish painter Paul Bril . Some of the lunettes and walls are decorated with modern frescoes .
The hall was and is part of the official path of the monarchs and heads of state with their companions to the papal audience .
In the Sala Ducale of the Pope on special occasions, ascended traditionally gestatoria Sedia (a type of portable chairs; since Pope . John Paul II is no longer in use) in order, visible to all, supported by twelve Sediari Pontifici , in St. Peter's Basilica to get . Here he and his entourage first crossed the Sala Regia, to be carried down the grand staircase called Scala Regia.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arne Karsten: Bernini. The creator of baroque Rome , Becksche Reihe, Munich 2006