Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Palazzo del Te: Camera del Sole e della Luna
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Palazzo del Te: Camera del Sole e della Luna
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Alternate Title:
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Chamber of the Sun and Moon
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Image View:
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Detail, Diana drives the chariot of the moon; figures are foreshortened
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Creator:
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Giulio Romano (Italian painter, 1499-1546) and workshop
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Location:
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site: Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Lombardy, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Viale Te, 13
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GPS:
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+45.14737+10.78728
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Date:
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1526-1528 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Work Type 2:
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stuccowork
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster; stucco
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Technique:
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carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); molding (forming)
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Relation Work:
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part of Palazzo del Té
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Subjects:
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mythology (Classical); Apollo (Greek deity); Diana (Roman deity); Gonzaga family; perspectival foreshortening
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Description:
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Commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. The fresco represents the chariot of the sun, driven by Apollo, sinking among the clouds at dusk, while the chariot of the moon, driven by Diana, is just beginning its journey across the sky. The artist painted the scene with a dizzying perspectival foreshortening that allowed him to give the image an erotic overtone. The carved stucco ceiling is elaborately decorated with a "net" vault 192 diamond-shaped panels, each with a bas-relief figure inside against a blue ground. The ceiling was restored in 2010. (Source: Palazzo Te [website]; http://www.palazzote.it)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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1A1-RG-PT-I-CSM-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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