Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Palazzo del Te; Chamber of the Giants
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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 Giants
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Alternate Title:
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Palazzo Te; Camera dei Giganti
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Image View:
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Detail, west wall head of one of the Giants, clinging to a rock in a flood
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Creator:
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Giulio Romano (Italian painter, 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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1532-1535 (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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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)
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Subjects:
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allegory; decorative arts; literary or legendary; mythology (Classical); Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; false perspective; trompe l'oeill; foreshortening
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Description:
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The room tells the story of the Fall of the Giants, taken from The Metamorphoses by the Latin poet Ovid. The huge and tumultuous images are part of the bold conception of a painting that denies the limits of architectural environment in such a way that the painting has no other spatial constraints but those generated by the pictorial illusion. Giulio Romano in fact conceals the cuts between the horizontal and vertical levels by smoothing the corners between walls, those between the walls and the ceiling and creating a floor, now lost, made up of a mosaic of painted river pebbles, at the bottom of the walls. The scene has the Olympian gods swirling down on the hapless Giants from above; Zeus destroys the Giants with thunderbolts. (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-SG-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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