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Ceiling fresco, Black Room, Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portugal
Detail of Fortuna or wealth, from the allegorical trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco painted by Antonio Simoes Ribeiro and Vicente Nunez, in the Black Room of the Joanina Library, or Biblioteca Joanina, a Baroque library built 1717-28 by Gaspar Ferreira, part of the University of Coimbra General Library, in Coimbra, Portugal. The Casa da Livraria was built during the reign of King John V or Joao V, and consists of the Green Room, Red Room and Black Room, with 250,000 books dating from the 16th - 18th centuries. The library is part of the Faculty of Law and the University is housed in the buildings of the Royal Palace of Coimbra. The building is classified as a national monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Unique Identifier
AR9185861
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
7087px × 4724px
Photo Credit
Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY
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18th century
ALLEGORICAL
Allegory
ART
Baroque
BIBLIOTECA
Book
Ceiling
COIMBRA
color
EUROPE
EUROPEAN
FINE ARTS
FORTUNA
Fresco
HERITAGE
History
HORIZONTAL
IBERIA
IBERIAN PENINSULA
IMAGE
INDOORS
INSIDE
interior
King John V
Library
Literature
looking up
MC
NATIONAL MONUMENT
Painting, Medium
portugal
Portuguese
Southern Europe
Southern European
UNESCO
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
University
UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA
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Wealth