Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Villa Farnesina: Sala del Fregio
Alternate Title:
Villa Farnesina: Room of the Frieze
Image View:
Detail, the top of the faux painted drapery with cords that look like the drapery is tied to a hook on the wall
Creator:
Baldassarre Peruzzi (Italian painter, 1481-1536) and workshop
Location:
repository: Villa Farnesina (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Via della Lungara, 230
GPS:
41.893611 12.4675
Date:
ca. 1506-1510 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
allegory; mythology (Classical); rulers and leaders; Chigi, Agostino, 1466-1520; Hercules (Roman mythological character); Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; trompe l'oeil; faux painting
Description:
The room was originally used as a waiting room for guests, but also for important ceremonies such as the reading of the banker Agostino Chigi's Will. The room takes its name from the frieze that runs around the top of the walls. Peruzzi frescoed the twelve Labours of Hercules and other deeds performed by the hero, as an allegorical reference to the virtues of his patron, as well as various mythological episodes, incorporating classical antiquity and also late-medieval Ovidian imagery. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PERUZ-SFW-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Villa Farnesina: Sala del Fregio