Allegory of war and Law - Prunksaal - Austrian National Library
2007-07
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- 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
Prunksaal (splendor hall): allegory of war and law.
Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694–1757) and finished in 1730.
The splendor hall of the Austrian National Library [1] was designed and started by Johann Fischer von Erlach [2] and finished by his son Joseph Emanuel [3] in 1726.
The frescoes reflect the division of the Prunksaal, after the original list of the books, into a "war-law" and a "peace-heaven" wings.
The barock program for the fresco was done by Conrad Adolph von Albrecht (1682–1751)
