We start the day with a lecture in the hotel on the leading Augsburg family, the Fuggers. Their ascent from humble weavers to the leading merchant-bankers of Renaissance Germany is stunning. We will study their impact on the development of Renaissance art as well as their implications with the Reformation. Afterwards we visit the church of St Anna where we get special access to the sumptuously decorated Fugger burial chapel showcasing delicate sandstone reliefs and putti executed by Hans Daucher. We continue our explorations with a private visit to the richly stuccoed rooms of Hans Fugger’s former Chamber of Arts and Curiosities, replete with stucco busts of antique emperors and gods. The afternoon is dedicated to the basilica of St Ulrich and Afra, the city’s two patron saints. This late gothic building is a treasure house of art from the late Middle Ages to the late Renaissance. We will be granted special access to an exquisite treasury of reliquaries and liturgical textiles.