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After his return to
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His main works include ceiling paintings for the
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Highly regarded by his contemporaries, his art was rejected barely twenty years after his death as outdated and eclectic. Shortly after 1800, court architect
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Since the late 1770s, his health had been deteriorating. In 1781, he had to go to
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