# Alexander the Great Battles the Indian King Porus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERINO DEL VAGA]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brown wash, 195 x 285 mm ## Commentary Pope Paul III gave the work of frescoing the great hall of the Castel Sant'Angelo to Perino del Vaga who had long been entrusted with the task of decorating papal halls. Perino himself painted just part of the frescoes in the Castel Sant'Angelo, the other parts being done by collaborators following his cartoons. Perino first prepared his own designs, and at least one such draft is preserved for Alexander the Great Battles the Indian King Porus. The <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/pino/paolina4.html'\)" href="/html/p/pino/paolina4.html">painting itself was executed by Marco Pino.</a> ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [General view]() - [Hope, Venus, and the Martyrdom of St Paul]() - [Jupiter Handing a Newborn Boy to Diana]() - [Lamentation]() - [North Façade of the Villa Doria]() - [Shipwreck of Aeneas]() - [Sketch for St John the Baptist Preaching]() - [Sketch for the Feast of Herod]() - [Sketch for The Visitation]() - [Tarquinius Priscus Founds the Temple of Jupiter on the Campidoglio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()