Zitat Barocke Baulust
In his treatise on architecture entitled Werk von der Architektur (c. 1675), Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein explains the intention behind the architectural commissions of aristocratic patrons:
This is then the sole and highest occasion of these noble and stately buildings: the immortal name and glory and eternal remembrance that is thus left behind by the structore [founder] ... Everything passes away and spoils and decays; only the noble edifice endures.



