# Interior of the dome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIMBERG, Hugo]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The serpent in Paradise with an apple in its mouth adorns the central dome of the vaulted ceiling. This painting aroused considerable adverse criticism in their time. Some contemporaries interpreted the winged serpent on a red background in the highest point of the ceiling as a symbol of sin and corruption. ## Related artworks - [Autumn I]() - [Death and the Peasant]() - [Frieze on the gallery \(detail\)]() - [Frieze on the gallery \(detail\)]() - [Frieze on the gallery \(detail\)]() - [Frost]() - [The Devil in the Rose Bush]() - [The Farmer's Wife and Poor Devil]() - [The Garden of Death]() - [The Wounded Angel]() - [The Wounded Angel]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()