Johann Michael Rottmayr (1654 - 1730)
Johann Michael Rottmayr was trained by his grandfather and his mother. After completing his apprenticeship with Johann Franz Pereth (1622–1678), he spent thirteen years studying with Johann Carl Loth (1632–1698) in Venice. In 1687 he settled in Salzburg, and two years later he received from Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst Graf Thun (1643–1709) major commissions for frescos in the Mirabell Palace and the Carabinieri Hall of the Residenz. He decorated churches and secular buildings in Vienna, Salzburg and Moravia. In 1704, Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705) conferred upon him the title “von Rosenbrunn”.
Author: Ducke Astrid
Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 108
Ceiling fresco (centre painting) – Neptune calming the tempest
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1176
Deckengemälde Mittelbild - Alexander führt seinem Vater den gezähmten Bucephalos vor
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1183
Deckengemäle Trabantenbild I - Die Gefangennahme des indischen Königs Porus, um 1710
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1184
Ceiling painting (side painting II) – Restoration of Porus to his kingdom
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1185
Ceiling painting (side painting III ) –The Pamphylian sea miracle
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1186
Ceiling painting (side painting IV ) – The battle of Gaugamela
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1187
Ceiling painting – Gordios is honoured as king in the Temple of Zeus
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. PR 1243
