# Decorative grotesques [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Scenes of farming and handicraft set in the middle of grotesques, in the place of motifs in a more traditional antique style, were frequently used for decoration at the end of the sixteenth century. They can be found in particular in the decoration of the Uffizi, on the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/buti/armeria.html'\)" HREF="/html/b/buti/armeria.html">ceilings of the rooms of the Armoury,</A> painted in 1588 in a military and technological vein. This is modestly foreshadowed in some details of the ceiling of the Stanza dei Lanifici at Caprarola. The Stanza dei Lanifici \(Room of Woolmaking\) of the Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola is one of the more than thirty frescoed rooms decorated with allegorical, mythological, historical and topographical scenes by several painters \(Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro, Giacomo Vignola, Jacopo Bertoia, Giovanni de' Vecchi, Raffaellino da Reggio between 1561 and 1579. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [A Curious Scene]() - [Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel]() - [Adoration of St Mark]() - [Allegorical Portrait of Dante]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare]() - [Altarpiece of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()