# Festival scenery with celebration of the Eucharist [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORTONA, Pietro da]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pencil, pen and bister on paper, 398 x 568 mm ## Commentary Festival scenery with celebration of the Eucharist c. 1633 Pencil, pen and bister on paper, 398 x 568 mm Royal Collection, Windsor In Rome it was customary to decorate church choirs on high church holidays with temporary decorations constructed of coloured papier mâché or canvas. The most famous of these are the ones created by Pietro da Cortona for the forty-hour prayer in Rome's San Lorenzo in Damaso during Holy Week in 1633. Drawings and engravings of these temporary "sacred sets" are the earliest evidence of the increasing tendency in the seventeenth century to transform church spaces into stages for heavenly apparitions and visions. ## Related artworks - [Age of Bronze]() - [Age of Iron]() - [Apotheose of Aeneas \(detail\)]() - [Augustus and the Sibyl]() - [Ceiling fresco in the Sala di Saturno]() - [Ceiling of the Galleria Pamphilj]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Ceiling painting]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()