Design for a Painted Ceiling: Triumph of Meekness and Strength

Seated upon clouds are a woman beside a lamb and an armoured woman holding a column. An angel holding the tiara flies over them, another one shouldering the keys at left, a genius blowing the trumpet, at right. Four animals are shown at the foot of the group: a seal, a unicorn, an eagle with a doble head (referring to Austria or Russia), a lion crouching on a fork (England). Written on top, in pencil: "Trionfo della Mansuetudine e della Fortezza." [Triumph of Gentleness and Strength]