ROTTMAYR, Johann Michael
(b. 1654, Laufen, d. 1730, Wien)

Military Genius Taken Up into Olympus (detail)

1705-08
Fresco
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Rottmayr's frescoes in the east stairwell of the Liechtenstein Garden Palace at Rossau was covered in the nineteenth century by Antonio Bellucci's oil paintings, transported from another palace in Vienna. They were recently uncovered and carefully restored.

The picture shows a detail of the ceiling fresco.