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On the first half-landing of the celebratory stairway, to the side of the main entrance to the Parterre boxes, two medallions designed by the sculptor Josef Cesar are displayed featuring portraits of the architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. Overhead can be seen two high relief pictures by Johann Preleuthner, symbolizing the ‘Ballet’ and the ‘Opera’. A special embellishment of the stairwell is the ceiling painting ‘Fortune spreading her gifts’ after a design by Franz Dobiaschofsky. Also by him are the three canvas wall paintings representing ballet, and comic and tragic opera. The seven allegorical statues designed by Joseph Gasser which line the celebratory stairway represent the seven free arts (architecture, sculpture, poetry, dance, music, theatre and painting). They were retrieved unharmed during the last days of the war. The two large mirrors seen here were also miraculously unharmed.
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