Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Sala di Galatea Ceiling; Constellations

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Sala di Galatea Ceiling; Constellations
Image View: 
Constellation of Perseus the Champion
Creator: 
Baldassarre Peruzzi (Italian painter, 1481-1536)
Location: 
repository: Villa Farnesina (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note: 
Via della Lungara, 230; Sala di Galatea
GPS: 
+41.893611+12.4675
Date: 
ca. 1510-1511 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
fresco (painting)
Classification: 
painting
Material: 
pigment on plaster
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique)
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-RS-VF-MP-A04
Rights: 
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