Art Institute of Chicago
Olympus
Lorenzo de' Ferrari
- Date
- 1743/1744
- Medium
- Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This large sheet is the final study for Ferrari's ceiling decoration in the Galleria Dorata in Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi, in Genoa, which he completed in 1743-1744. The composition depicts a scene from Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, when the goddess Venus appreaches Jupited on Olympus to lament her son Aeneas's adversities.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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