1278-1283 Baroque Frescoes

Date of Issue December 11th 1968; Special-postage stamps

- St. Michael and David in front of the Ark of the Covenant, dome

  fresco in the Abbey Altenburg

- Christ as the Judge of the World; ceiling fresco of the tomb

  chapel at Röhrenbach-Greillenstein

- Handing over of Melk Abbey to the Benedictines; Fresco in the

  Festival Hall of the Grammar School in Melk

- Assumption of Mary into Heaven; fresco from the Maria-Treu-

  Church in Vienna

- Apotheosis of St. Leopold; fresco from the chapel of the palace

  Ebenfurth

- Allegory of Time and Light; ceiling fresco in the State Hall of

Halbthurn Castle

Frescoes are by Paul Troger ( 1698-1762 ) resp.

Franz Albert Maulpertsch ( 1724-1796 )

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