The Oratorium Marianum was once a place of prayer and a music hall
decorated with beautiful ornaments, paintings, and vibrant frescoes.
However, one of the brutal results of wars, (World War II) is the
devastation of exquisite architectures and buildings. Sadly, The
Oratorium Marianum at Wroclaw University shared that fate. Except for a
very few walls and plasters left, everything in that beautiful room was
all destroyed.
The teams of artists who rallied in rebuilding and renovating this
iconic structure in the University of Wroclaw. It took years
to replace the broken plaster decorations, sculptures, paintings,
columns, vaults, and marbles.
A painter by the name of Christoph Wetzel came as the person to restore Handke’s frescoes.
The composition of the interior - combining indivisible elements of architecture and decoration - testifies to the relationship with the work of Christopher Tausch. All the works led Johann Blasius Peintner, and after his death - Joseph Frisch. As part of the team they acted artists realizing earlier Aula Leopoldina and Imperial Stairs, m. In. sculptors Johann Albrecht Siegwitz and Franz Joseph Mangoldt, plasterers: Johann Anton Schatzela and Ignazio provisor and painter Johann Christoph Handke of Olomouc.
The hall vault with lunettes. The two eastern bays, separated arc rainbow and parietal columns, formed the choir. On the entablature they have been placed putti, and hermowych pilasters - seraphim, forming choirs of angels connecting to the scene painting on the plafond, representing God the Father in the sky. The cycle of monumental painting on the ceiling of the main, the music and a gallery in lunetach, as well as gold-plated cartridge in keys arches, united the Marian iconography of the call room.
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