Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Triumph of Hercules
Alternate Title:
Trionfo di Ercole
Image View:
Detail, winged genius (or winged victory) with trumpet and the eagle of Zeus
Creator:
attributed to Francesco Coghetti (Italian painter, ca. 1801-1875)
Location:
repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy) MR 1548
Location Note:
Palazzo Braschi; Piazza Navona, 2 and Piazza San Pantaleo, 10
GPS:
41.897444 12.472861
Date:
ca. 1839 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Neoclassical; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster (removed from wall and resupported)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Description:
Coghetti was a painter and teacher. He became a member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome in 1834. Between 1837 and 1842 he and several contemporaries from Camuccini’s circle, including Cochetti, Podesti and Natale Carta, were commissioned by Alessandro Torlonia (1800-1886) to decorate the Palazzo Torlonia (destroyed 1902) in the Piazza Venezia, the Villa Torlonia (destroyed) at Porta Pia and the Villa Torlonia in the Via Nomentana. These were his only works not commissioned by the church. This work comes from the Palazzo Torlonia, from a gallery that featured the apotheosis of Hercules and the story of Hercules and Lica. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-GOGH-MOR-TE-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Triumph of Hercules