Ceiling painting of the Marble Hall - Melk Abbey - Austria
1731
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Own work, Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, July 2007
- Rights
- CC BY 2.5, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The ceiling painting shows Pallas Athena on a chariot drawn by lions as a symbol of wisdom and moderation. Hercules is to her left, symbolizing the force necessary to conquer the three-headed hound of hell, night, and sin. Both Pallas Athena and Hercules are disguised references to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI [1].
