Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Villa Borghese; Room of the Gladiators Ceiling
Alternate Title:
Villa Borghese; Sala del Gladiatore
Image View:
Vault decorations in grisaille and stuccowork and central panel of the Council of the Gods
Creator:
Giovanni Battista Marchetti (Italian painter, 1730-1800); Laurent Pécheux (French painter, 1729-1821); Vincenzo Pacetti (Italian artist, ca. 1745-1820)
Location:
repository: Villa Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
GPS:
41.914 12.492
Date:
ca. 1777-1783 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque; Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:
stuccowork
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 3:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
stucco; oil paint on canvas; pigment on plaster (fresco)
Technique:
carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); grisaille; oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Homer. Iliad; trompe l'oeill; grisaille, interior design
Description:
The central canvas panel of the ceiling was executed by Laurent Pécheux who painted the Council of the Gods, dated between 1777 and 1783, depicting Jupiter among the gods both favorable and against the Trojan war. The vaults continue in the decorations with trophies and weapons by Marchetti and in the stucco bas-reliefs in which Korybantes (Corybants, followers of Cybele) appear dancing with helmet and shield, designed by Vincenzo Pacetti and made by Costantino Mazzoni (active in the second half of the XVIII century). (Source: Galleria Borghese [website]; http://galleriaborgh ese.beniculturali.it )
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A2-I-R-BG-GR-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Villa Borghese; Room of the Gladiators Ceiling