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About the book >.>.> Its ruler Prince- Bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenclau had commis- sioned him to decorate the Kaisersaal one of the state rooms in his palace the Residenz. Later extended to include the decoration of the Residenz’s staircase the commission resulted in a series of frescos that are num- bered among greatest glories of Baroque painting. the Created by the last major representative of the Venetian traditon in painting the frescos in the W?rz- burg Residenz are a truly epochal work of art. They form the culmination of a venerable tradition of fresco decoration initiated by Giotto over four hundred years earlier and in their marriage of mythological and historical subject-matter constitute a monument to the dying age of absolutism. In his highly readable text Peter O. Kruckmann tells the story of how Tiepolo came to receive the commission explores in detail the thematic and artistic intricacies of the frescos and documents their genesis as a continuous process from the preliminary sketches to the finished works. In examining the relationship between the painted dec- oration and the architecture of the Residenz he sheds new light on the place of the frescos in the complex ceremonial rituals of a provincial court. During his three-year stay in W?rzburg Tiepolo and his son Giandomenico produced a number of oil paintings for the Prince-Bishop and other German patrons. These works too are discussed in this lavishly illustrated volume which provides layman and expert alike with an informative and visually exciting survey of the masterpieces created in W?rzburg by the man who was probably the greatest painter of the eighteenth century.