Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Villa Borghese; Room of the Gladiators 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 the Gladiators Ceiling
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Alternate Title:
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Villa Borghese; Sala del Gladiatore
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Image View:
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Vault decorations in grisaille and stuccowork and central panel of the Council of the Gods
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Creator:
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Giovanni Battista Marchetti (Italian painter, 1730-1800); Laurent Pécheux (French painter, 1729-1821); Vincenzo Pacetti (Italian artist, ca. 1745-1820)
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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. 1777-1783 (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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stuccowork
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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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stucco; oil paint on canvas; pigment on plaster (fresco)
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Technique:
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carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); grisaille; oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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mythology (Classical); Homer. Iliad; trompe l'oeill; grisaille, interior design
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Description:
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The central canvas panel of the ceiling was executed by Laurent Pécheux who painted the Council of the Gods, dated between 1777 and 1783, depicting Jupiter among the gods both favorable and against the Trojan war. The vaults continue in the decorations with trophies and weapons by Marchetti and in the stucco bas-reliefs in which Korybantes (Corybants, followers of Cybele) appear dancing with helmet and shield, designed by Vincenzo Pacetti and made by Costantino Mazzoni (active in the second half of the XVIII century). (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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7A2-I-R-BG-GR-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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