23.05.13
Continuing past the ballroom, we entered a room filled with paintings. This manner of displaying paintings was common. All wall space was used to house as many paintings as possible. The idea of isolating a painting to contemplate it alone is a more recent development.
This is a stove. Rooms did not contain open fireplaces for heat. This stove has a door accessible from a separate hallway. Servants could then add wood to the fire to keep the rooms heated without disturbing the nobles and without producing smoke in the room. While the ceilings were done in the Baroque style, the lower portions of the rooms were later redecorated according to Rococo tastes, hence the frilly stoves.
The ceiling frescoes in this room represent the twelve months of the year and show people engaged in seasonally appropriate activities.
The center fresco depicts the Judgement of Solomon.
Here and there there are rooms dedicated to Eastern art and objects. This is the porcelain room.
This bedroom is noteworthy because Maria Theresa slept here when she came visiting with some family members. They brought paintings of Hapsburg family members as gifts, which are still on display.
Here's a bust of Maria Theresa.
Here's another East Asia themed room.
More Baroque ceiling, Rococo silk wall covering combinations.
This is the ceiling of the upstairs altar nook that overlooks a Baroque chapel.
The chapel below. If I understand correctly, this room can be rented out for weddings.
Goldwork above the altar.
I'm not sure how a priest would actually get into this thing to deliver a homily if that was done anymore.
This is the upstairs altar.
This little chapel also marks the day/night axis. We're now entering the night side of the building. The doors to night are painted blue, and the woodwork in the following rooms is now brown.
Looking back into day, we can see that the doors and the legs of the furniture are painted white.
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