Church
Jesuitenkirche Luzern
Baroque church reworked in rococo stucco and gilding decades after it first opened its doors.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Jesuitenkirche in Lucerne, Switzerland's first great Baroque church, traces how a plain seventeenth-century statement of Counter-Reformation faith became the rose-and-gold interior visitors see today. It follows the eighteenth-century craftsmen, including local carver Beat Josef Schumacher, who reworked the nave in rococo style, and lingers on the altarpiece's tricks with material. You'll also hear how a church built to carry a preacher's voice now serves Lucerne's concert life.
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