Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Triumph of Venus

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Triumph of Venus
Alternate Title: 
Trionfo di Venere
Image View: 
Overall view without frame
Creator: 
Pietro Gagliardi (Italian painter, 1809-1890)
Location: 
repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy) dep. M.C. 137
Location Note: 
Palazzo Braschi; Piazza Navona, 2 and Piazza San Pantaleo, 10
GPS: 
+41.897444+12.472861
Date: 
ca. 1836-1837 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Neoclassical; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1: 
fresco (painting)
Classification: 
painting
Material: 
fresco, removed and remounted
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique)
Description: 
The fresco paintings of Pietro Gagliardi (1809-1890) represent the last era of the Roman school dominated by the Papacy before the accession of King Umberto I (reigned 1878-1900). During his long and productive career, he worked in a style that had been initially influenced by Neo-classicism but, modified by Purismo and the taste for Romantic subject-matter, later oscillated between academicism and Romanticism. This mural was done for the Palazzo Torlonia (Palazzo Bolognetti-Torlonia). When redesigning Piazza Venezia, the building was demolished in 1902-1903; some frescoes were removed and saved and are in the Palazzo Braschi collection. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-GAG-MOR-RV-A01
Rights: 
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