Detail of Holy Trinity ceiling fresco, painted in the 1500s in a chapel built in 1552 on the reputed site of William Tell’s birthplace at Bürglen, Uri canton, Switzerland. A bearded God the Father with Jesus the Son on the cross. The date 1949 on God the Father refers to the year of the fresco’s discovery beneath later painting.

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Bürglen, Uri Canton, Switzerland: ceiling fresco in Tell’s Chapel (Tellskapelle), a chapel built in 1552 on the reputed site of the birthplace of legendary Swiss hero and national symbol of freedom, William (Wilhelm) Tell. This fresco was originally painted in the 1500s and then discovered in 1949 beneath later painting. The west front of the chapel is decorated with the painted date 1588 and several frescoes, including a depiction of William Tell holding his crossbow as he places an apple on the head of his son, Walter. Inside the chapel is a fresco cycle depicting the story of William Tell, also painted in the 1500s and discovered in 1949. Bürglen honours Tell’s memory with the Tell Museum and a late-18th century statuary group by Swiss sculptor and modeller Joseph Benedikt Curiger or Kuriger (1754-1819).

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Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: Tell’s Chapel or Tellskapelle, Bürglen, Uri Canton, Switzerland
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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