Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Allegory of Divine Providence
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Allegory of Divine Providence
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Alternate Title:
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Triumph of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
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Image View:
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Detail, grisaille (monochrome) fresco painted to resemble carved stucco work and gilded medallions, divides yet connects the scenes
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Creator:
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Pietro da Cortona (Italian painter, 1596-1669)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13
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GPS:
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+41.903611+12.490278
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Date:
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1632-1639 (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); grisaille
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Measurements:
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15 m (width, approx.) x 25 m (length, approx.)
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Description:
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After he had decorated a small gallery and chapel in the newly built Palazzo Barberini in 1631-1632, Francesco Barberini commissioned him to decorate the vast vault of the palazzo’s Gran Salone, on which Cortona worked for seven years. Cortona’s creation of an illusionistic architectural framework of feigned stucco, which divides the surface into five painted scenes yet connects and relates the scenes and figures, was absolutely new. The room seems open to the sky, and the richly decorated framework strengthens the unity of the illusionistic view. The theme of the fresco is an Allegory of Divine Providence, personified by the activities of Urban VIII. In the center of the vault emblems of the Barberini family were provided with attributes of immortality, and along the cove historical and allegorical scenes illustrate the virtues of the Barberini. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-CPD-PB-TDP-23
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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