Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Sala di Galatea Ceiling; Constellations
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Sala di Galatea Ceiling; Constellations
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Image View:
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Constellation of Ursa Major depicted as Callisto before her transformation, detail, oxen tail
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Creator:
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Baldassarre Peruzzi (Italian painter, 1481-1536)
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Location:
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repository: Villa Farnesina (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via della Lungara, 230; Sala di Galatea
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GPS:
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+41.893611+12.4675
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Date:
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ca. 1510-1511 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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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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By 1506, if not earlier, Peruzzi was employed on the design and construction of a suburban villa for Agostino Chigi, on the newly opened Via della Lungara. The Sala di Galatea, which like the loggia was also originally open to the garden, is decorated with Peruzzi’s representation of the constellations of Chigi’s horoscope (the sky and stars on the day Chigi was born) accompanied by a personification of Fame trumpeting his glory. On the walls are Peruzzi’s Gigantic Head, Sebastiano del Piombo’s Polyphemus (ca. 1512) and Raphael’s Galatea (ca. 1512), all portions of a cycle of the gods that was never completed, perhaps because the lower floor of the villa was subject to flooding. (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-RS-VF-MC-C03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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