Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Palazzo del Te; Chamber of Ovid or Metamorphosis
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Palazzo del Te; Chamber of Ovid or Metamorphosis
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Alternate Title:
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Palazzo Te; Camera di Ovidio o delle Metamorfosi
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Image View:
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Fireplace in red Verona marble with Gonzaga emblem of Mount Olympus
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Creator:
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Agostino da Mozzanica (Italian painter, active 1520s); Anselmo Guazzi (Italian painter, active 1527-1549); Giulio Romano (Italian designer, 1499-1546)
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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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1502-1527 (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); Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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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)
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Subjects:
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decorative arts; literary or legendary; mythology (Classical); Gonzaga family; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
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Description:
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The room, called "camarino" in the sources for its modest dimensions, is named for the subjects in the friezes, inspired by Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Starting from the entrance wall, proceeding to the right, the subjects are: Orpheus in the Underworld; Torment of Marsyas (South wall); Judgment of Paris; Bacchus and Ariadne; Dance of Satyrs and Maenads (West wall); Contest between Apollo and Pan; Bacchus drunk; Maenads tormenting a Satyr (East wall). The mythological themes are alternated with fantasy landscapes, except the landscape on the north wall, to the right of the window, which shows a royal view of Palazzo Te as it was supposed to appear from the walls of Mantua in 1527. Fireplace in red Verona marble is surmounted by the Mount Olympus and bears the dedicatory inscription: "F[edericus] G[onzaga] II M[archio] M[antue] V "], (Federico Gonzaga II, 5th Marquis of Mantua). There are some remnants of fresco dating back to 1502 belonging to Francesco II Gonzaga's former stables. (Source: Palazzo Te [website]; http://www.palazzote.it)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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1A1-RG-PT-I-CO-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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