Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Council of the Gods
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Council of the Gods
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Image View:
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Detail, Pluto and Proserpine with the dog Cerberus
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Creator:
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Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian painter, 1582-1647)
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Location:
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repository: Villa Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
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GPS:
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+41.914+12.492
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Date:
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1624-1625 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster (fresco)
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique); grisaille
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Subjects:
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allegory; deities; mythology (Classical); Borghese family; trompe l'oeil; telamons; Olympus
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Description:
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Lanfranco carried out one of the first examples of Baroque painting in Rome for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The Council of the Gods is a ceiling fresco of a large room on the first floor of Casino Pinciano on the grounds of the Villa Borghese, designed at the time as an open loggia opening on to the park. Lanfranco employed the illusionist device of the "quadratura" from the Roman tradition; he treated the ceiling center and the vault as a unified illusionistic space. He used a trabeated system (a construction using lintels rather than arches) painted in perspective along the perimeter of the walls, supported by pairs of grisaille painted telamons (columns sculpted in the form of a man) alternated with lunettes. The loggia was enclosed in 1779 before being restored by Domenico Corvi, a Rome-based Neo-Classical painter. (Source: Discover Baroque Art; www.discoverbaroqueart.org)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-LANFRANC-BG-COG-A07
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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