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Metaphysics by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Workshop and Girolamo Mengozzi (called Colonna)
Metaphysics by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Workshop and Girolamo Mengozzi (called Colonna)
This allegorical figure of Metaphysics, identified by the inscription on the base, is from the Palazzo Valle-Marchesini-Sala in Vicenza. The simulated architecture, foreshortened from a viewing point in the center of the room, was carried out by a specialist in this sort of work, Girolamo Mengozzi, who collaborated with Tiepolo on a number of commissions. The frescoes date from the 1740s and were removed about 1900.
This fresco, along with Arithmetic, Geometry, and Grammar, comes from the gallery of the palazzo Valle-Marchesini-Sala in Vicenza. A fresco representing Virtue and Abundance decorated the ceiling of the gallery. Four more frescoes formerly in the Simonetti collection, Rome, are also said to come from this gallery: Mars and Venus, two allegorical figures with an obelisk, and a head of Bacchus.
Girolamo Mengozzi (called Colonna) was responsible for the architectural elements of the frescoes, as well as the trompe-l'oeil architecture that surrounded them and is still intact in the gallery.
Four frescoes representing Virtues come from a different room in the same palazzo. Overdoors representing the four continents may also come from this palazzo, since they have the same recent provenance as the others in the group, but there is no firm evidence for this.
Metaphysics by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Workshop and Girolamo Mengozzi (called Colonna)
Metaphysics by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Workshop and Girolamo Mengozzi (called Colonna)
This allegorical figure of Metaphysics, identified by the inscription on the base, is from the Palazzo Valle-Marchesini-Sala in Vicenza. The simulated architecture, foreshortened from a viewing point in the center of the room, was carried out by a specialist in this sort of work, Girolamo Mengozzi, who collaborated with Tiepolo on a number of commissions. The frescoes date from the 1740s and were removed about 1900.
This fresco, along with Arithmetic, Geometry, and Grammar, comes from the gallery of the palazzo Valle-Marchesini-Sala in Vicenza. A fresco representing Virtue and Abundance decorated the ceiling of the gallery. Four more frescoes formerly in the Simonetti collection, Rome, are also said to come from this gallery: Mars and Venus, two allegorical figures with an obelisk, and a head of Bacchus.
Girolamo Mengozzi (called Colonna) was responsible for the architectural elements of the frescoes, as well as the trompe-l'oeil architecture that surrounded them and is still intact in the gallery.
Four frescoes representing Virtues come from a different room in the same palazzo. Overdoors representing the four continents may also come from this palazzo, since they have the same recent provenance as the others in the group, but there is no firm evidence for this.