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church by Zimmermann

  • A room decorated in the Rococo style, Nymphenburg palace, near Munich.
    In Rococo

    …by Balthasar Neumann, and the Wieskirche (begun 1745–54), near Munich, built by Dominikus Zimmermann and decorated by his elder brother Johann Baptist Zimmermann. G.W. von Knobelsdorff and Johann Michael Fischer also created notable buildings in the style, which utilized a profusion of stuccowork and other decoration.

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  • Steinhausen: pilgrimage church
    In Dominikus Zimmermann

    …at the Bavarian village of Wies (1746–54), has a rather drab and demure exterior but an interior even richer than that of Steinhausen. The plan is again oval, with eight piers supporting a sumptuous entablature and vault, decorated this time with unmistakably Rococo motifs and a delicate ceiling fresco by…

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