Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Villa Farnesina: Sala del Fregio
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Villa Farnesina: Sala del Fregio
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Alternate Title:
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Villa Farnesina: Room of the Frieze
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Image View:
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Detail, painted wood shutters on the windows
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Creator:
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Baldassarre Peruzzi (Italian painter, 1481-1536) and workshop
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Location:
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repository: Villa Farnesina (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via della Lungara, 230
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GPS:
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+41.893611+12.4675
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Date:
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ca. 1506-1510 (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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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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allegory; mythology (Classical); rulers and leaders; Chigi, Agostino, 1466-1520; Hercules (Roman mythological character); Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; trompe l'oeil; faux painting
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Description:
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The room was originally used as a waiting room for guests, but also for important ceremonies such as the reading of the banker Agostino Chigi's Will. The room takes its name from the frieze that runs around the top of the walls. Peruzzi frescoed the twelve Labours of Hercules and other deeds performed by the hero, as an allegorical reference to the virtues of his patron, as well as various mythological episodes, incorporating classical antiquity and also late-medieval Ovidian imagery. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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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-PERUZ-SFWI-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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