Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Palazzo del Te; Chamber of the Emperors
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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 the Emperors
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Alternate Title:
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Palazzo Te; Camera degli Imperatori
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Image View:
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View of the vaulted ceiling; center hexagon features Caesar burning the letters of Pompey
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Creator:
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workshop of Giulio Romano (Italian artist, 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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ca. 1530-1531 (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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stuccowork
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Work Type 2:
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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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carved plaster; pigment on plaster (fresco); gilding
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Technique:
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carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); gilding (technique)
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Subjects:
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allegory; decorative arts; rulers and leaders; Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.; Caesar, Julius
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Description:
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The room is named for the subjects painted on the vault, exalted as virtuous examples of rulers drawn from ancient history. The center hexagon features Caesar burning the incriminating letters of Pompey in an act of clemency. On the long walls are two tondi, one of Alexander saving the books of Homer (south wall), the other of the continence of Scipio (north wall). The curved vaults have six rectangles with full length standing portraits of Alexander the Great (east wall); Julius Caesar; Signifer or sign holder (south wall); Augustus (west wall); Warrior; Philip of Macedonia (north wall). The lower frieze in grisaille is late eighteenth century (the original has been lost). (Source: Palazzo Te [website]; http://www.palazzote.it)
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Image Description:
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An episode reported by Pliny in which, after the victory of Pharsalus, Caesar burned Pompey's incriminating letters without reading them, in an act of clemency.
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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-COE-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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