
Saint Ambrose Bars Emperor Theodosius from Milan Cathedral
Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, 1750
Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner painted Saint Ambrose refusing the emperor Theodosius entry to the cathedral of Milan in 1750. In 390 Ambrose demanded that Theodosius do public penance for a massacre at Thessalonica, and the emperor submitted. Baumgartner was a painter of the Augsburg Rococo, and the painting is in the Belvedere in Vienna.





