Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Palazzo del Te; Loggia of the Muses
|
Collection:
|
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
|
|
Preferred Title:
|
Palazzo del Te; Loggia of the Muses
|
|
Alternate Title:
|
Palazzo Te; Loggia delle Muse
|
|
Image View:
|
Lunette on east wall with personification of Mantua, as Virgil's head emerges from a fountain
|
|
Creator:
|
workshop of Giulio Romano (Italian artist, 1499-1546)
|
|
Location:
|
site: Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Lombardy, Italy)
|
|
Location Note:
|
Viale Te, 13
|
|
GPS:
|
+45.14737+10.78728
|
|
Date:
|
ca. 1527 (creation)
|
|
Cultural Context:
|
Italian
|
|
Style Period:
|
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
|
|
Work Type 1:
|
loggia
|
|
Work Type 2:
|
fresco (painting)
|
|
Work Type 3:
|
stuccowork
|
|
Classification:
|
Paintings
|
|
Material:
|
carved plaster (stucco); pigment on plaster (fresco)
|
|
Technique:
|
carving (processes); fresco painting (technique)
|
|
Subjects:
|
allegory; deities; literary or legendary; mythology (Classical); Gonzaga family; Performing arts; Virgil; coats of arms; trompe l'oeill
|
|
Description:
|
The Loggia of the Muses was the entrance for guests who came from the "Cortile d'Onore" (Courtyard of Honor) into the state rooms. Here, Federico II used to welcome his visitors. The vault is dedicated to the Muses, protector deities of arts and science. The goddesses are modeled with plaster in the lacunars of the barrel vault, which are surrounded by classic and modern emblems and by accurate reproductions of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The lunette on the West wall depicts Apollo surrounded by objects evoking poetry and theater. The seriously damaged North wall depicts two episodes of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The lunette of the East wall celebrates the Latin poetry through its major personality, Virgil, born in Mantua. (Source: Palazzo Te [website]; http://www.palazzote.it)
|
|
Collection:
|
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
|
|
Identifier:
|
1A1-RG-PT-I-LM-A09
|
|
Rights:
|
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
|