# Decoration \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PARIGI, Giulio]() - Date: 1601-1650 - 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, and on that of the Stanzino delle Matematiche, where scientific instruments, machines and historical episodes related to the subject are presented. ## Related artworks - [Cosimo II de' Medici's Ex-voto]() - [Scenery with River Allegories]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()