Weekly attraction / Rafael in UGM
Weekly attraction / Rafael in UGM
Since its founding in 1954, the Maribor Art Gallery has been housed in a building on Strossmayerjeva street, where many different residents have changed over the centuries, from the monastery to the coffee substitute factory. One of the owners, Baron Goedel-Lannoy, had the ceiling in the great hall of the palace painted in 1882 and 1883. The central image of the ceiling painting, however, would be recognized even by the Pope himself! It is a copy of Raphael's fresco The Meeting of Pope Leo I the Great with the Hun King Attila in the Vatican. Copying famous frescoes was a common practice at the time, but the painter probably only knew the fresco from black-and-white graphics, which makes the otherwise exact copy differ in color.
