# Design for the ceiling

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CORTONA, Pietro da](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Pen with brown wash, 427 x 562 mm

## Commentary

The picture shows the overall design for the ceiling of the Salone in Palazzo Barberini, Rome. This is one of the few surviving preliminary drawings for the great ceiling fresco. It is assumed that there must have been a comprehensive design in the form of a bozzetto.

## Related artworks

- [Age of Bronze](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/age-of-bronze-rb15132e1668261>)
- [Age of Iron](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/age-of-iron-rce1ef2549488bc>)
- [Apotheose of Aeneas \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/apotheose-of-aeneas-detail-r0fdaa34d343548>)
- [Augustus and the Sibyl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/augustus-and-the-sibyl-r248515e0fd1d33>)
- [Ceiling fresco in the Sala di Saturno](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-fresco-in-the-sala-di-saturno-r14484cd2ab2670>)
- [Ceiling of the Galleria Pamphilj](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-of-the-galleria-pamphilj-rc29414c81472d8>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-detail-r6e9d7cea8a94e3>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-detail-r8df6687fb1cd5d>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-detail-red3c2ed57464ba>)
- [Ceiling painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-r19f61c7937d941>)
- [Ceiling painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-r3a702507be60f3>)
- [Ceiling painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-r3b155ff05a5a34>)

## Attribution

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