# Apotheose of Aeneas \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORTONA, Pietro da]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Pietro da Cortona \(Pietro Berrettini\) was an architect, painter and decorator, one of the most influential masters of the Roman Baroque art. As a fresco painter, he was famous for his complex, large artworks. The Apotheose of Aeneas was executed for the ceiling of the Long Gallery of the Palazzo Pamphilj. It was commissioned by Pope Innocent X. ## Related artworks - [Age of Bronze]() - [Age of Iron]() - [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]() - [Ceiling painting]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()