Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Palazzo Chiericati; Hall of the Firmament

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Palazzo Chiericati; Hall of the Firmament
Alternate Title: 
Sala del Firmamento
Image View: 
Detail, octagon of the constellation Ophiuchus ("serpent-bearer")
Creator: 
Bartolomeo Ridolfi (Italian stuccoist, died ca. 1571); Domenico Brusasorci the elder (Italian painter, ca. 1516-1567)
Location: 
repository: Palazzo Chiericati (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza Matteotti 37/39
GPS: 
+45.549167+11.549167
Date: 
1558 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1: 
ceiling
Work Type 2: 
fresco (painting)
Work Type 3: 
stuccowork
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
pigment on plaster (fresco); stucco
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique); grisaille
Subjects: 
allegory; decorative arts; mythology (Classical); Apollo (Greek deity); Astronomy; Diana (Roman deity); Zodiac; constellations
Description: 
The Hall of the Firmament is the ground floor entry vestibule to the Palazzo. The sky is divided into stucco boxes by Bartolomeo Ridolfi, a sculptor and stuccoist from Verona. Inscribed within some of the compartments are signs of the zodiac, other, smaller compartments contain monochrome allegories, based on antique cameos and Roman coins. Some seventy-seven different representations are contained within the firmament, which represent all the constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres known at that time. The constellations are organized into three bands: the first and third are composed of half-octagons; the second of octagons. In the long rectangle at the center, the chariots of Apollo and Diana (the Sun and Moon) are depicted. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A2-I-VI-PC-HF-A15
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.