text
Room after room of exhibits tell the story of the elector couple and recall the highlights both personal and political of a fulfilled marriage and rule lasting almost fifty years. They tell of the origins and previous history of the bridal couple, of the wedding and marriage, in which Magdalena Sibylla was granted remarkable autonomy, of the blessing of children, of Johann George I’s accession to the electorate office in 1611, of attitudes to fashion and fashionable attitudes, passion for the chase and feasting, of the Reformation anniversary and the Parole in the Thirty Years War. The works have been contributed by the Armoury and Coin Collection, also the Painting Gallery of Old Masters, the Grünes Gewölbe – the Green Vault – and the Land and University Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle: With their material and artistic wealth, they manifest in a uniquely compact overview the early phase of Baroque splendour at the Court of Electoral Saxony.
