Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Triumph of Galatea
Image View:
Detail, heads of group in right side
Creator:
Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
Location:
repository: Villa Farnesina (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Via della Lungara, 230; Sala di Galatea
GPS:
41.893611 12.4675
Date:
ca. 1512 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
295 cm (height) x 225 cm (width)
Description:
After 1512, Raphael worked in fresco only for the popes and those closest to them. In the villa (now Villa Farnesina) built by the Tiber in Rome for the immensely wealthy banker Agostino Chigi, an intimate of both Popes Julius and Leo, Raphael painted the fresco of the Triumph of Galatea ca. 1512. As subject Raphael chose a verse from a poem by the Florentine Angelo Poliziano which describes how the clumsy giant Polyphemus sings a love song to the fair sea-nymph Galatea and how she rides across the waves in a chariot drawn by two dolphins, laughing at his uncouth song, accompanied by sea-gods and nymphs. The next (left) panel in the hall features Polyphemus, painted by Sebastiano del Piombo. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-RS-VF-TTG-D03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Triumph of Galatea