Resumen de Eine "chambre aux enfants" auf Burg Runkelstein? Ein neuer Vorschlag zur Deutung der sogenannten "Badestube".
A study of the frescoes in the so-called bathroom at the 1385 castle of Burg Runkelstein in Bolzano, Italy. These frescoes, which depict courtly women and men with animals and putti, confront the researcher with many unresolved questions, particularly regarding the meaning of each series of apparently naked figures that have given the room its name. The original interpretation of the room as a bathing place has long been dismissed, yet so far there has not been a truly convincing alternative. This room was a rather more intimate, exclusive space reserved to a select public that belonged to the courtly elite. The iconography and its illusionistic character speak of the demand to keep up with contemporary Italian interior decoration.
