Olympus

Lorenzo de' Ferrari Italian, 1680-1744 →

pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)

Date

1743/1744

Medium

Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper

Dimensions

90 × 69 cm (35 7/16 × 27 3/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Purchased with funds provided by the Regenstein Foundation

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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