In 1885, Janez and Jurij Šubic took over a commission upon the passing of painter Janez Wolf. The Provincial Committee had called upon him to paint the ceiling inside the Rudolfinum Provincial Museum (today the National Museum of Slovenia and the Natural History Museum of Slovenia). They took on the commission enthusiastically, enamored as they were of the idea of serving their country as the most honorable and laudable undertaking an artist could muster. They divided up the work among themselves, with Janez painting the ceiling above the central staircase with the allegory of Carniola as the protectress of science and the arts, and with Jurij illustrating the columned foyer with 4 personifications of the museum’s mission – science, arts, history, and archaeology – and 4 portraits of famous Slovenians in ovals: Žiga Herberstein, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Žiga Zois, and Valentin Vodnik, surrounding the central figure of Carniola (NG S 443 and NG S 444).