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The Baroque State Hall is among the world's most beautiful historic libraries. The construction was ordered by the Emperor Charles VI for his Court Library: it was built from 1723 till 1726 but the ceiling frescoes were completed in 1730 by Daniel Grans, a court painter. The works go according to plans of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and carried out by his son Joseph Emanuel.
The hall is organized into two side wings and a cupola space that give
the interior a three-part structure.
The cupola, which is 30 metres high, has an oval horizontal shape and the fresco presents the apotheosis of Charles VI, the builder of the Court Library: in the centre there is a medallion with his picture held up by Hercules and Apollo that represented the figures of strength and wisdom that are, also, the characteristics attributed to the Emperor. Over them there is the figure of eternal glory holding a pyramid like a symbol of honour.
The frescoes in the wings, instead, show the worldly and military themes in the wing of the entrance and the presentation of Heaven and peace in the rear wing. The wings are divided by two massive pair of columns, called the “pillars of Hercules”.
The rich holdings of the Court Library came from various sources: today, the State Hall homes 200,000 books from 1501 till 1850 and, among them, the 15,000 volumes of Prince Eugene of Savoy's collection, placed in the middle oval.
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