Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Villa Borghese; Room of Silenus Ceiling

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Villa Borghese; Room of Silenus Ceiling
Alternate Title: 
Villa Borghese; Sala del Sileno
Image View: 
Detail, central panel, the Sacrifice of Silenus by Conca
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://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-MACHET-BG-ROSC-A15
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.