# Ceiling painting \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUERCINO]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Tempera ## Commentary In the Stanza del Caminetto, a room adjacent to the central room on the ground floor, the centre of the ceiling shows a wreath of putti, the documented work by Antonio Circignani, called il Pomarancio \(1560-1620\). It is framed by four landscape pictures painted by Paul Bril, Giovanni Battista Viola, Domenichino, and Guercino. These were produced in a kind of competition between the four painters. Guercino's contribution is seen on the right in the present photo. It was painted in tempera, a technique that allowed for swift, spontaneous execution and lush, rich colours. ## 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]()