EditorialJürgen Flimm, director of the Salzburg Festival, seated in the new concert hall at the Morgan Library in New York in November 2007. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
EditorialGrotesque dwarfs were a popular feature of baroque gardens. The earliest " dwarf-garden", the garden of Mirabell-Palace in Salzburg, was created by Fischer von Erlach around 1690 / 91. The gardener with his shovel stands for the month of March.
EditorialThe Neptune Cave in the gardens of Hellbrunn Palace. Fountain with Neptune statue, a mask spouting water, and two sea-horses. Water can be made to fall from the ceiling by using a lever (1613-1615) .
EditorialAnglo-Saxon work, perhaps from Northumbria, between 700 and 750. Wooden core, sheetgold and glasspaste. Golden arabesques in vineform, animals. The cross may have been ordered for Salzburg by Irish bishop Virgil and used during the consecration of the ...
EditorialBaroque Art. The Horse Tamer. Sculpture by Michael Bernhard Mandl (1660-1711), 1695. Sculptorical central group in the horse pond next to Sigmund's Gate. Salzburg. Austria.