View taken from behind the high altar of the Jesuitenkirche designed by Andreas Pozzo in 1703. This picture reveals that what initially appears to solid metal or marble fixings are in fact, more often than not, merely wood carvings or plaster moulds covered in a thin layer of bronze or painted to give the illusion of gold or marble. Clearly value engineering was in existence well before the advent of quantity surveyors; such is the nature of the Baroque, maximum impact for as little expenditure as possible.
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