Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

Administrator of Prüm in perpetuity, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Jülich, Cleves, and Berg, Prince of Mörs, Coadjutor of the Archbishopric of Mainz, Count of Veldenz, Sponheim, Mark, and Ravensburg, Lord in Ravenstein, Freudenthal, and Eulenberg, etc. It exceeds the preceding chapel in size, and was designed by the most celebrated Imperial Architect, Lord Baron Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, completed last year, and consecrated on the day of Moses. The work is likewise entirely of blue Priborn marble, made up to the projection, and relies on six such columns of sixteen feet standing without any support, which are adorned by whitely gilded capitals and bases, similarly in the Corinthian order. Placed on the altar, the Ark of the Covenant is seen with the rising Sun of Justice, and all these things are gilded with metal and fire. On one side of this is Moses; on the other, Aaron, fashioned in Vienna from white Tyrolean marble by Ferdinand Brokkoff, the most celebrated Prague artist. Opposite, indeed, are the Old and New Testaments; the former, indeed, through Moses with a veiled face, holding in his hands a staff entwined with a bronze serpent; the latter, represented by the image of Christ crucified. Above the doors by the same artist, from the same marble, in higher relief, the four Last Things—Death, Judgment, Bliss, and Damnation—are seen expressed most elegantly. Above this first door, two boys sit, one of whom holds an hourglass, the other a skull. Above the second, one boy blows a trumpet, another opens an urn made of multicolored Salzburg marble and that, too, beautiful, such as one may see in the middle above each of the doors. Above the third, one boy holds a lamb under his arm, the other a starry crown. Above the fourth, one boy similarly carries a goat, the other an open huge book or list of sins, which above all celebrate the artist's genius.

In the dome, the Precipitation of Lucifer by the Archangel Michael, and also the four Evangelists and the four Fathers of the Church named below, are painted in the vault of the chapel by the most excellent painter C. J. Carloni. On both sides, indeed, the French painter expressed the Sacrifice of Melchizedek and the Supper of the Lord, surrounded by the aforementioned multicolored Salzburg marble. Externally above the entrance, the insignias of the Most Serene Elector are in gilded marble, and across, of the Serenity