Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Galleria Riccardiana Ceiling (Long Gallery)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Galleria Riccardiana Ceiling (Long Gallery)
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Image View:
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Detail, South wall, Adonis killed by the boar; the boar is chased by the dogs of Fidelity
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Creator:
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Luca Giordano (Italian painter, 1634-1705)
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Location:
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repository: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via Camillo Cavour, 3
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GPS:
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+43.7752+11.255429
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Date:
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ca. 1682-1686 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Description:
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Giordano won the commission from Marchese Francesco Riccardi (1648-1719) to decorate both the library and the gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence. He began to work on the vault of the gallery, but then returned to Naples (1683-1684), completing the ceiling between 1685 and 1686. The theme of this iconographically complex ceiling unites an Allegory of Human Progress with an Allegory of the Medici Family, the previous owners of the palace. In the center of the ceiling, in a burst of light, is an Apotheosis of the Medici; along the ceiling’s cove the idea of progress is conveyed through mythological scenes (set in landscapes) that are fresh and idyllic in mood and deeply influenced by Cortona’s radiant frescoes in the Sala della Stufa in the Palazzo Pitti. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Image Description:
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Adonis, enamoured of Venus and conquered by Carnal Love, lies mortally wounded by the boar sent by Mars. Diana, as the personification of Divine Love, chases away the boar, symbol of lust, with the help of the dogs of Fidelity.
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-GIOR-PM-GR-M02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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