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The Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Palace) is a down-and-out joy to explore. It has meandering gardens, peacocks in heat, astrological wonders, archaeological bits and bobs, and one stupendous art museum – the Alte Galerie. Not bad for a suburban complex. Early Days The Schloss wasn’t always in suburbia, of course. When
On the insistence of Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, the palace was designed as an independent universe, built with astrological, astronomical, and mathematical principles in mind: 31 rooms on each floor = days in a month 24 state rooms on the piano nobile (2nd story) arranged in a circular fashion =
The Schloss Eggenberg contains the Alte Galerie – a world class art museum with none of Vienna’s crowds. It has work by Michael Pacher, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Giovanni Pietro de Pomis, and an extensive collection of stained glass, Maria statues, and panel paintings. If you’re a medievalist, you’re not
When it came to impressing their guests, the Eggenbergs preferred the sledgehammer to the feather. You can see this principle in action during a guided tour of the palace’s 24 state rooms. Baroque State Rooms Like everything in the palace, the state rooms are part of an intricate cosmological scheme.
Continue readingState Room Window, Schloss Eggenberg, Graz, Austria
