page_title: Livio Retti
section_title: Schwäbisch Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Livio Retti / Works / Schwäbisch Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: Schwäbisch Hall, Rathaus, Deckengemälde im Ratssaal "Sieg der Tugend über die Laster" oder "Sieg des Christentums über das Heidentum".jpg
context_page_description: Livio Retti was an Italian Baroque painter who worked mainly in present-day South Germany, at the time the Duchy of Württemberg, the Duchy of Bavaria, some secular or ecclesiastical franconians principalities and some free imperial cities such as Schwäbisch Hall for example.
context_section_description: Between 1736 and 1738, Retti was called by the advisers of the free imperial city of Schwäbisch Hall for the interior decoration of the new Baroque town hall which was built on the site of a Franciscan convent church devastated by a fire in the city in 1728.
  Retti painted 22 murals in the town hall of Schwäbisch Hall whose rooms were originally equipped with parquet floors with sculpted benches.
  These were actually oil paintings on canvas that were stretched on ceilings or walls. He did not paint a fresco directly on the wall after treatment. His paintings were then framed by a stucco decoration, often representing naturalistic motifs, and decorated with figurative medallions. After the fire, traces of wall paintings were found directly below Retti's oil paintings; they represented landscapes of Hall, Limpurg, Vellberg and the Comburg.
  The current paintings in the City Hall are copies. There are three rooms:
  the heroes' room;
  Alexander the Great destroys the Gordian knot (wall)
  Aeneas saves his father Anchises from Troy on fire (wall)
  The martyred death of Marcus Curtius (wall)
  Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Aeneas, Romulus, Caesar, Pompey, Scipio and Hannibal (ceiling)
  the Stettmeister Hall which revolves around the allegory of the city republic of Hall.
  Allegory of the city of Hall and its prosperity (ceiling)
  Allegory of merit with the Latin motto "Nemini sua munera claudit" (wall)
  Allegory of the action with the Latin motto "Nemo otiosus!" (wall)
  Architecture and Fine Arts of Schwäbisch Hall (wall)
  Beneficence of Schwäbisch Hall (wall)
  Agricultural life, crafts and industry in Schwäbisch Hall (wall)
  the Council Room is decorated mainly with biblical motifs such as the Last Judgment.
  Joseph and his brothers (right wall)
  The sacrifice of Isaac (right wall)
  The judgment of Solomon (left wall)
  Jacob's fight with the angel on the banks of the Jabbok (left wall)
  Pharaoh's daughter saves Moses (wall)
  Samson's fight with the lion (door top)
  David and Jonathan's oath against Saul (door top)
  The request of Semeis to David (top of door)
  Victory of virtue over vices or Victory of Christianity over paganism (ceiling)
  In the music room (Musiksaal) is the Allegory of music and the five senses.
  Retti also realized the allegory entitled "The Beneficial Power of Fire". and the allegory entitled "The destructive power of fire".
  Retti's original works in Schwäbisch hall no longer exist. They were destroyed by a fire that ravaged the interior of City Hall after an incendiary bombing on April 16, 1945. The renovation of the building was completed in 1955.
caption: "Victory of virtue over vices" on the ceiling of the Great Council Chamber of City Hall in Schwäbisch Hall.
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