# Apollo Conducting the Orchestra of Putte [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUARANA, Jacopo]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The decoration of the Music Room is divided into two parts, one dedicated to the world of allegories, the other to the real world. Apollo, the god of music, dominates the fresco on the back wall of the Room, which is splendidly laid out by Agostino Mengozzi Colonna in a manner that recalls the scheme employed by the elder Mengozzi Colonna to frame <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/t/tiepolo/gianbatt/4labia/08labia.html'\)" href="/html/t/tiepolo/gianbatt/4labia/08labia.html">Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra</a> in the Palazzo Labia. Apollo personally directs the orchestra of young girls \(the "putte"\) seated in his right. Next to him, dressed in yellow, Pasquale Anfossi \(1727-1797\), the opera composer who was then in charge of the Ospedaletto, conducts the chorus, holding a rolled-up musical score. ## Related artworks - [Apollo Conducting the Orchestra of Putte \(detail\)]() - [Apollo Conducting the Orchestra of Putte \(detail\)]() - [Apollo Conducting the Orchestra of Putte]() - [Apotheosis of Venice]() - [Ospedaletto: View of the Music Room]() - [The Triumph of Music]() - [View of the portego]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()