“BIBLIOTHECA NOSTRA“. STUDIEN ZUR BAU- UND AUSSTATTUNGSGESCHICHTE DER BAROCKEN BIBLIOTHEK DES ZISTERZIENSERSTIFTES ZWETTL (NIEDEROSTERREICH)

• Authors: Werner Telesko , Martin Haltrich

Title variants

EN

“Bibliotheca nostra”. Studies on the building and decoration history of the Baroque library of the Cistercian abbey in Zwettl (Lower Austria)

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The existing library building of the Cistercian Monastery in Zwettl (Lower Austria) was built relatively quickly after a previous building in the years 1730 to 1732 and then, after completion of the painting decoration by Paul Troger (1733), also furnished. The building process and the intentions regarding the library system are easy to follow thanks to archival – so far unpublished – sources. They will be fully reflected for the first time in the presented paper. The construction of the new library is likely to have to do with the aspirations of the ambitious and scientifically oriented Abbot Melchior Zaunagg, who might the viewed as the "Spiritus rector" of the painting decoration (Hercules myth).

Keywords

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CISTERCIAN ABBEY; AUSTRIA; ARCHITECTURE; LIBRARY SYSTEMS; WALL PAINTING; HERCULES MYTH; TROGER; ZAUNAGG; LIBRARY

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 188 – 208

Contributors

author

Werner Telesko

• Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, A-1010 Wien, Austria

author

Martin Haltrich