# Ceiling decoration [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The picture shows the ceiling fresco in the Room of Giovanni da San Giovanni. It depicts the Allegory of the Marriage of Vittoria della Rovere with Ferdinando II de' Medici In 1637, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, married Vittoria della Rovere, last heir of the Dukes of Urbino, whose extraordinary dowry of art objects enormously enriched the already conspicuous outstanding Medici collections. ## Related artworks - [Aurora and Tithonus \(detail\)]() - [Aurora and Tithonus]() - [Ceiling centre]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Fame Showing the Wandering Philosophers to Tuscany and Munificence]() - [Venus Combing Cupid's Hair]() - [View of the apse and choir]() - [View of the east wall]() - [View of the Sala Terreno]() - [View of the Sala Terreno]() - [Young Bacchus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()