# Vault decoration [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COYPEL, Antoine]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Coypel painted the ceiling of the chapel of Versailles in 1709. In it Coypel turns his back on Rubens and follows a Roman Baroque model, Baciccia's ceiling for the Gesù. Coypel follows his original closely in the general principles of the design, which depends on the most melodramatic forms of trompe-l'oeil, and on the creation of the effect that the celestial world is literally bursting through the vault into the chapel itself. Coypel has even extended the trompe-l'oeil because, whereas in the Gesù the fresco is surrounded with real stucco decoration, at Versailles the architectural setting is entirely painted, in imitation of real vaulting and relief. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Music]() - [Assembly of Gods]() - [Democritus]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Louis XIV Resting after the Peace of Nijmegen]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [Self-Portrait with his Son Charles-Antoine]() - [The Aeneid: Aeneas and Achates Appearing to Dido]() - [The Aeneid: Aeneas Carrying his Father Anchises]() - [The Aeneid: The Death of Dido]() - [The Swooning of Esther]() - [Vault decoration: God the Father in Glory]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()