Melk Abbey - Gallery

Gallery

  • Church of the Abbey.

  • Frescoed ceiling of the church .

  • Cupola of the church.

  • The Triumph of the Monk, by Johann Michael Rottmayr.

  • St. Benedict's triumphal ascent to Heaven, also by Rottmayr

  • Painting on the ceiling of the marble hall

  • The library

  • Melk Abbey in 1672, before its renovation by Jakob Prandtauer.

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