# View of the portego [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RICCI, Sebastiano]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The Palazzetto Zane was <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/gaspari/zane.html'\)" href="/html/g/gaspari/zane.html">designed by Antonio Gaspari</a> not as a place in which to live, but merely as a place in which to enjoy oneself. Marino Zane, the seventeenth-century owner of the building, wanted the vault of the double-height portego - the principal room around which the various spaces of the villa were organized - decorated in stucco work. He commissioned Abbondio Stazio, and a less-well-known artist, Andrea Pelli, to execute the work. The frescoes, formerly attributed to Nicolò Bambini, were in fact painted by Sebastiano Ricci. Ricci and Stazio were also responsible for the decoration of the grand staircase. The portego is entirely surrounded by a balcony, originally meant to accommodate two orchestras, rimmed with a richly carved wooden balustrade. It is still the venue for concerts. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Marcantonio Colonna's Victory at Lepanto]() - [Altar of St Gregory the Great]() - [Amor Virtutis Casts Ignorantia down into Orcus]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Apotheosis of Hercules]() - [Bacchanal in Honour of Pan]() - [Bacchanal in Honour of Pan]() - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Bathsheba at her Bath]() - [Bathsheba]() - [Battle of the Romans and the Sabines \(detail\)]() - [Battle of the Romans and the Sabines]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()