# View of the ceiling

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ZUCCARO, Taddeo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The themes painted in the ground floor apartments, intended for various uses by guests, are all taken from classical mythology and are thoroughly appropriate to a country seat. The relatively small paintings are embedded in a decorative system, of grotesques, establishing the overall appearance of this series of rooms. Zuccaro has borrowed here from representations of grotesques by the circle of Raphael. This is clearest in the Stanza dell&#39;Autunno, which goes back to the &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/g/giovanni/udine/madama1.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/g/giovanni/udine/madama1.html&#34;&gt;ceiling frescoes by Giovanni da Udine&lt;/a&gt; in the Villa Madama, Rome.

## Related artworks

- [General view of the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/general-view-of-the-sala-dei-fasti-farnesiani-r41bbaf8d2fa466>)
- [Scene from the History of the Farnese Family \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/scene-from-the-history-of-the-farnese-family-detail-rb4ca26c643a723>)
- [Scene from the History of the Farnese Family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/scene-from-the-history-of-the-farnese-family-r0aad8ed350fe45>)
- [Scene from the History of the Farnese Family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/scene-from-the-history-of-the-farnese-family-r25ccbd977a6079>)
- [Scene from the History of the Farnese Family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/scene-from-the-history-of-the-farnese-family-raf08bc69355d1d>)
- [Study of a Male Nude](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/study-of-a-male-nude-r814555f4012f83>)
- [View of the ceiling](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/view-of-the-ceiling-ra879b12b715967>)
- [View of the ceiling](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/view-of-the-ceiling-re85aba9b3ce495>)
- [View of the ceiling](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/zuccaro-taddeo-r429442390ae588/view-of-the-ceiling-rfdd7c87857e003>)

## Attribution

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