# Ceiling painting [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUERCINO]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Tempera ## Commentary The picture shows the ceiling of the Sala dell'Aurora, the central room on the ground floor. It was painted by Guercino depicting Aurora on Her Triumphal Chariot. This composition was a deliberate response to <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/reni/1/aurora.html'\)" href="/html/r/reni/1/aurora.html">Guido Reni</a>'s Aurora in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome. Guercino's coworker was Agostino Tassi who was responsible for the architecture \(quadratura\) painted in fresco technique. \(Guercino painted in tempera instead of fresco.\) ## Related artworks - [A Cosmographer]() - [A Donor Presented to the Virgin]() - [Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael]() - [Allegory of Painting and Sculpture]() - [Apparition of Christ to the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Aurora]() - [Aurora]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()