# Ceiling decoration

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FONTEBASSO, Francesco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

This fresco is on the ceiling above the monumental stairway in Palazzo Bernardi. The fresco shows groups of musicians, pages, and servants at an illusionistic balustrade turning to greet the guests.

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/adoration-of-the-shepherds-r2542f9861f8dd2>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/adoration-of-the-shepherds-rc34151943ec3f8>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/assumption-of-the-virgin-r81866a02de64ac>)
- [Family of Darius before Alexander](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/family-of-darius-before-alexander-r907dfe0bbde950>)
- [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine with St Therese](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/mystic-marriage-of-st-catherine-with-st-therese-r2d7d15f681e1bf>)
- [Supplemental scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/supplemental-scene-r52270885df6df5>)
- [Supplemental scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/supplemental-scene-rb3918086c975d5>)
- [The Banquet of Zenobia \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/the-banquet-of-zenobia-detail-r1d9bf12c616c13>)
- [The Banquet of Zenobia \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/the-banquet-of-zenobia-detail-rb749a77998a30d>)
- [The Banquet of Zenobia \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/the-banquet-of-zenobia-detail-rde1406e95e7b03>)
- [The Banquet of Zenobia \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/the-banquet-of-zenobia-detail-re36c54c8095faa>)
- [The Banquet of Zenobia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontebasso-francesco-rde0164d2c34e63/the-banquet-of-zenobia-r0eb2624558cfad>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)