MAULBERTSCH, Franz Anton
(b. 1724, Langenargen, d. 1796, Wien)

St Narcissus in Glory

c. 1754
Oil on canvas, 162 x 103 cm
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

In this altarpiece Maulbertsch transposed the compositional criteria of a ceiling painting, the apparently boundless heavenly space and the view from below, onto the altarpiece.




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