Tag: Giovanni Pietro de Pomis

Mausoleum, Graz, Austria 1

Mausoleum & St. Catherine’s Church, Graz, Austria 1

If nothing else, the Habsburgs believed in making a grand exit. In 1614, Archduke Ferdinand commissioned his beloved court architect Giovanni Pietro de Pomis to build his Mausoleum and St. Catherine’s Church (both pictured here). But when Ferdinand became Emperor and de Pomis died, the half-finished Mausoleum was left to

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