Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Villa Borghese; Room of Silenus Ceiling
Alternate Title:
Villa Borghese; Sala del Sileno
Image View:
Detail, satyrs play in front of trompe l'oeill architecture
Creator:
Giovanni Battista Marchetti (Italian painter, 1730-1800); Tommaso Conca (Italian painter, 1734-1822)
Location:
repository: Villa Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
GPS:
41.914 12.492
Date:
ca. 1775-1778 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque; Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:
ceiling
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 3:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco); oil paint on canvas
Technique:
fresco painting (technique); grisaille; oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Bacchus; trompe l'oeill; false perspective
Description:
The central canvas, inserted in the vault, is by Tommaso Maria Conca and depicts the Sacrifice of Silenus, as well as the two lateral monochrome (grisaille) frescoes of the Intoxicated Silenus and Silenus returns Bacchus to King Midas. The figures of the bacchantes, satyrs and sileni are distributed in an elaborate architectural quadratura (illusion) by Marchetti. (Source: Galleria Borghese [website]; http://galleriaborgh ese.beniculturali.it )
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MACHET-BG-ROSC-A 02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Villa Borghese; Room of Silenus Ceiling