Innsbruck's Cathedral, Dom zu St Jakob.

The Cathedral of Innsbruck, the Dom zu St Jakob, is a gem of baroque art and architecture, not to be missed is your pilgrimage take you to or through Innsbruck.

Façade and bell towers of

 Dom zu St Jakob, Innsbruck

The High Altar and Apse of Dom zu St Jakob, Innsbruck

The center jewel of the silver tabernacle of the High Altar

is Maria Hilf  (Maria Succor), the painting by

 Lucas Cranach the Elder

Dome helps enlighten Apse and Main Altar

Monumental Organ at the back of the Cathedral

Dom zu St Jakob, Innsbruck

 

Pulpit of Dom zu St Jakob brings

a touch of Churrigueresque Baroque

to the Cathedral

 

 

Side altar and canopied tomb

of Archduke Maximilian III of Austira,

Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights,

Dom zu St Jakob, Innsbruck

 

Ceiling Frescoes by German Painter Cosmas Damian

Asam using perspective illusion technique.

View of the set of three Ceiling Frescoes

with painted spandrels in each corner.

The stucco work surrounding the

frescoes was done by Cosmas'

brother Egid Quirin Asam

 

We shall meet the Asam brothers again, when we travel with Road of  Faith and Art to the Asam Church in Munish