The Garden Hall is relatively low considering its size; nevertheless, the impression of space is free and gracefully light.
The reason for this lies not in the proportions or in the ceiling painting, which opens up the low vault to a view of the sky but is rather heavy due to the heavy,
earth-brown tones in Balthasar Neumann's special spatial arrangement. The vaulted ceiling is not supported by the wall alone,
but by twelve slender marble columns that stand in a circle in the room. The result is that the vault stands independently in front of the wall like a canopy.

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