Tommaso di Garona

The sculptor who created the Residenzbrunnen, the magnificent baroque fountain at the centre of Residenzplatz. Completed around 1661, its three-tiered composition of sea gods, tritons, and horses rising from cascading water is one of the largest and finest baroque fountains in Central Europe.

Every visitor arriving at the Cathedral square from the west passes it. Garona created it for Prince-Archbishop Guidobald von Thun, who commissioned the fountain as the centrepiece of the rebuilt Residenzplatz in the late 1650s, a generation after the great campaigns of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Markus Sittikus, and Paris Lodron.