On the second floor of Ptuj Castle, we find an exhibition of 47 paintings from the period between the end of the 16th and the second third of the 18th century: noble portraits, imperial portraits of the Habsburgs, religious and mythological paintings, still lifes, and landscapes.

In the first room, we find portraits of nobility from the first half of the 17th and from the 18th century. The half-length portrait of Baron Paul Spaur-Flavon from 1602 is the oldest among them. The portraits of the Rodenegg line of the Wolkensteins, who were related by marriage to the Spaurs and Herbersteins, are … Read more

This room is dedicated to the imperial portraits of the Habsburgs. The three paintings on the right-side wall are from Dornava Mansion. In the centre is a representative portrait of Empress Maria Theresa, and to her left and right are her parents, Emperor Charles VI and his wife, Elisabeth Christine.The Empress is depicted in another … Read more

The religious paintings originate from Libochovice Castle in Czechia. They were moved to Ptuj Castle around 1907 by the Herbersteins. They were painted in the workshop of Johann Christian Schröder, a Czech court painter and manager of the Prague Castle Gallery. It is from this gallery that the copies of famous masters’ works originate. The … Read more

Four more of Schröder’s copies from Libochovice castle are displayed here.The other part of the room houses paintings with mythological themes.The painting between the two windows is attributed to Italian Baroque painter Giacinto Gimignani, who painted the god Bacchus on the left, Ariadne on the right, and between them Venus, who is urging Ariadne to … Read more

Religious paintings, still lifes, landscapes, and battle scenes are displayed in the last room.Rest on the Flight into Egypt was painted by Giovanni Odazzi after 1720. In addition to this painting, this particular composition is known in two other versions: one in the Walters Gallery in Baltimore, the other in private ownership.The large altar painting … Read more

Paintings on glass are among the most beautiful works of folk art. Religious motifs painted on glass adorned rural houses from the 18th to the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition takes the visitor through the history of reverse glass painting, sheds light on the time and place where the majority of the … Read more

In this room, part of the collection of reliquaries or so-called monastic works kept in our museum is on display, most of which are the legacy of the polyhistor Franz Ferk, who donated them to the Ptuj Museum Society in 1895. The collection helps us understand the essential features of the history of the veneration … Read more

Sculptures dating from the 12th to 14th centuries are on display in this room.Among the oldest works from the Romanesque period in Slovenia, and also one of the finest, is a relief depiction of a dragon biting its tail – ouroboros. The relief from the second quarter of the 12th century is still built into … Read more

At the end of the 14th century, new stylistic tendencies of the International Gothic style, or Beautiful Gothic style, began to gain ground in this area under the influence of architectural and sculptural workshops working on the construction of the new pilgrimage church at Ptujska Gora.A group of sculptures from the early 15th century, depicting … Read more