ROTTMAYR, Johann Michael
(b. 1654, Laufen, d. 1730, Wien)

Ariadne Handing Theseus the Thread

1705-08
Fresco
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

The Salzburg painter Johann Michael Rottmayr was commissioned in 1705 to decorate the ground floor halls and the stairwells in the Liechtenstein Garden Palace at Rossau. The picture shows one of the ceiling frescoes in the Ladies Apartments where the paintings contain motifs related to women (Virtue, Ariadne, Andromeda).