Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Villa Borghese; Room of Silenus 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; Room of Silenus Ceiling
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Alternate Title:
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Villa Borghese; Sala del Sileno
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Image View:
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Detail, central panel, the Sacrifice of Silenus by Conca
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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. 1775-1778 (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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painting (visual work)
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Work Type 3:
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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); oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique); grisaille; oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Bacchus; trompe l'oeill; false perspective
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Description:
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The central canvas, inserted in the vault, is by Tommaso Maria Conca and depicts the Sacrifice of Silenus, as well as the two lateral monochrome (grisaille) frescoes of the Intoxicated Silenus and Silenus returns Bacchus to King Midas. The figures of the bacchantes, satyrs and sileni are distributed in an elaborate architectural quadratura (illusion) by Marchetti. (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-ROSC-A14
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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