Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Villa Borghese; Egyptian Room Ceiling
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Villa Borghese; Egyptian Room Ceiling
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Alternate Title:
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Villa Borghese; Sala Egizia Fresco
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Image View:
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Detail, planetary gods; the Moon (Diana or Artemis), a putti carries her bow
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Creator:
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Giovanni Battista Marchetti (Italian painter, 1730-1800); Tommaso Conca (Italian painter, 1734-1822)
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Location:
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repository: Villa Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
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GPS:
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+41.914+12.492
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Date:
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ca. 1779-1782 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque; Eighteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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ceiling
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Work Type 2:
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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); grisaille
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Subjects:
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allegory; mythology (Classical); Astronomy; Nile River; Anthony and Cleopatra; trompe l'oeill; interior design
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Description:
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The room was specially designed by the architect Antonio Asprucci, between 1779 and 1782 to house the Egyptian statues from the collection. At the center of the vault is the Nile River with his sons, the beneficial floods, and the goddess Cybele by Tommaso Maria Conca. Surrounding this, inside banded panels, are the planetary deities; Moon, Jupiter, Uranus (represented as Anubis with a dog's head), Saturn, Venus, Mars, Sun and Mercury by Giovanni Battista Marchetti. Immediately under the frame of the vault are eight paintings by Conca which illustrate the events of Antonio and Cleopatra. (Source: Galleria Borghese [website]; http://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.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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7A1-MACHET-BG-ERC-A12
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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