8TH CONTINENTAL CONGRESS OF DERMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DERMATOLOGY WITH 12TH CONTROVERSIES IN DERMATOLOGY

Aula Leopoldina
plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-145 Wrocław  

Aula Leopoldina, the largest and most representative part of the main building of the University of Wrocław, is a valuable and unique secular monument of the late Baroque. Erected in the years 1728-1732 together with the whole complex of university buildings, it was named after Emperor Leopold I, the founder of the University in 1702. The assembly hall was designed by Christophorus Tausch, a pupil of Andrea Pozza, the famous Italian architect, painter and philosopher. It was covered with frescoes by Johann Christoph Handke from Olomouc. The figural sculptures were created by Franz Joseph Mangoldt, a well-known Wrocław artist of Moravian origin, and the stucco ornaments and marble decoration were made by the Italian master Ignazio Provisore. These artists perfectly realised the artistic vision of Andrea Pozza: sculpture, architecture and painting form one organic entity. The tripartite composition of the interior of the Hall was created by separating the podium, the auditorium and the music gallery supported by pillars. In 2008, conservation and structural studies were initiated, followed by works in several stages, the most substantial part of which took place between 2015 and 2018. The official reopening of the hall took place on 21 March 2022, accompanied by an exhibition of the Golden Bull, the document establishing the Leopoldine Academy, signed by Emperor Leopold I of Habsburg on 21 October 1702, which is kept in the Manuscripts Department of the Library of the University of Wrocław.