Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Neptune in a Chariot drawn by Sea-Horses
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Neptune in a Chariot drawn by Sea-Horses
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Image View:
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Overall view of oval painting of Neptune, and grisaille nudes, also by Ponchino
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Creator:
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Giovanni Battista Ponchino (Italian painter, ca. 1500-ca. 1570)
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Location:
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repository: Palazzo Ducale (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco 1; Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (Council of Ten)
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GPS:
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+45.4339+12.34
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Date:
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1553-1555 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance; Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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ceiling
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Work Type 2:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas, attached to ceiling
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Technique:
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grisaille; oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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animal; mythology (Classical); Neptune (Roman deity); hippocampi
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Description:
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In 1553 Ponchino was in Venice, where he was commissioned to paint the decorations in the Doge’s Palace. Vasari stated that he gained this important commission because of his connection with the influential Grimani family, but then, at Ponchino’s invitation, Paolo Veronese and Battista Zelotti became involved in the project. Ponchino's work in the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (1553-1555) comprises Mercury and Minerva, Neptune Drawn by Sea Horses and grisailles of a personification of Venice and male nudes (all in situ). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PONCH-DP-NC-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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