Eger - Former Lyceum Library

The most imposing room in the Lyceum building is the Library in the south wing; founded by Károly Eszterházy in 1793, it boasts an impressive ceiling fresco painted in 1778/9 by the Austrian artist Johann Lukas Kracker. The fresco contains a total of 132 figures and represents the meeting of the Council of Trent (1545-63) to discuss the consequences of the Reformation and the revival of the Catholic church. In the four corners of the room the resolutions drawn up by the Council are illustrated - ordination of priests, censorship of books, last sacraments and worship of relics. The architectural aspects of the same event are duplicated in the Late Gothic chapel, which gives an illusionistic impression of height without actually imitating