# Forge with grotesques [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BUTI, Lodovico]() - 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 ceilings of the rooms of the Armoury, painted in 1588 in a military and technological vein. ## Related artworks - [Optical Illusion with Portraits of Charles II and His Daughter Christine of Lorraine]() - [Preparation of Gunpowder]() - [The Architect]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()