Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Jove Descending from the Skies to hurl Thunderbolts at the Vices
Image View:
Overall view, central medallion, Jove is shown with his eagle and fire in his hand
Creator:
after Paolo Veronese (Italian painter, 1528-1588); Jacopo D'Andrea (Italian copyist, 1819-1906)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Ducale (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:
Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco 1; Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (Council of Ten)
GPS:
45.4339 12.34
Date:
copy, 1863 (other); original, 1554-1556 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1:
ceiling
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
grisaille; oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
560 cm (height) x 330 cm (width)
Subjects:
allegory; mythology (Classical); Zeus (Greek deity); Venetian
Description:
The central picture gracing the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace, by Veronese. In 1797 it was confiscated by the art commissars of Napoleon Bonaparte and removed to Paris; it remains in the Louvre. In 1863 Jacopo di Andrea made a copy at the behest of the government, and this now replaces the looted original in Venice. The artist is incorrectly listed as Andrea di Jacopo elsewhere. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/in dex.html)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A2-I-V-DP-SCC-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Jove Descending from the Skies to hurl Thunderbolts at the Vices