# View of the east wall [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The picture shows the east wall of the Salone Terreno \(Room of Giovanni da San Giovanni\) on the ground floor of the Palazzo Pitti. On the long east wall is depicted in three scenes the expulsion of the arts and sciences from Parnassus - symbol of the Golden Age of Antiquity - occasioned by time, the furies, religious fanaticism, and barbarism, and followed by their ultimate rescue. ## Related artworks - [Aurora and Tithonus \(detail\)]() - [Aurora and Tithonus]() - [Ceiling centre]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Fame Showing the Wandering Philosophers to Tuscany and Munificence]() - [Venus Combing Cupid's Hair]() - [View of the apse and choir]() - [View of the Sala Terreno]() - [View of the Sala Terreno]() - [Young Bacchus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()