A leading baroque ceiling painter. If Rottmayr's frescoes crown the Kollegienkirche dome, Paul Troger's Glory of Saint Cajetan crowns the nave of the Kajetanerkirche nearby. Born in the South Tyrol and trained in Venice, Bologna, and Naples, Troger returned to the Habsburg lands to create monumental ceiling frescoes in Austria's greatest baroque monasteries and palaces.
In Salzburg, his work looks down from the Kajetanerkirche ceiling and the halls of Mirabell Palace. Together with Rottmayr and Altomonte, Troger represents the full arc of Austrian baroque ceiling painting at its most ambitious scale.