Nymphenburg Palace

Schloss Nymphenburg—the Palace of the Nymphs—is a Baroque royal residence in Munich, built as the main summer home of the Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria. Work began in 1664, commissioned by the electoral couple Ferdinand Maria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, with the Italian architect Agostino Barelli setting the initial plans. Barelli was replaced in 1674 by Enrico Zuccalli, and the palace’s mythological decorative programme was devised by the scholar Emanuele Tesauro of Turin, while the ceiling paintings were carried out by Antonio Triva and Antonio Zanchi. What makes this palace unusually legible is scale: its frontal width along the north–south axis is 632 metres, which even exceeds Versailles. From 1701, Maximilian Emanuel drove a systematic expansion, adding pavilions and gallery wings, then in 1716 Joseph Effner redesigned the centre pavilion’s facade in a French Baroque style. …

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