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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Palazzo Altemps: Hall of the Duchess Frescoes
Alternate Title:
Palazzo Altemps: Sala della duchessa
Image View:
Galatea on shell chariot pulled by dolphins, detail, right side, putti
Creator:
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian painter, 1610-1662)
Location:
site: Palazzo Altemps (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46
GPS:
41.900935 12.473053
Date:
ca. 1637-1646 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Seventeenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Galatea; dolphins
Description:
Romanelli was the pupil first of Domenichino, then of Pietro da Cortona; his work also shows the influence of Bernini (in some of whose projects he became involved) and of Poussin. Extensive Barberini patronage evidently made Romanelli quite a distinguished figure in Rome. The frescoed mythological scenes in friezes in the Palazzo Altemps was an important commission. This is the private living room of the Duchess Isabella Lante Altemps, who married the Duke Pietro in 1636. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-ROMANEL-PA-HD-A0 6
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Palazzo Altemps: Hall of the Duchess Frescoes