03 — ARTWORK
Ceiling painting (detail)
- MEDIUM
- Tempera
- TYPE
- Mythological
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COMMENTARY
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In the Stanza del Caminetto, a room adjacent to the central room on the ground floor, the centre of the ceiling shows a wreath of putti, the documented work by Antonio Circignani, called il Pomarancio (1560-1620). It is framed by four landscape pictures painted by Paul Bril, Giovanni Battista Viola, Domenichino, and Guercino. These were produced in a kind of competition between the four painters. Guercino's contribution is seen on the right in the present photo. It was painted in temperaA method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with an emulsion of water and egg yolks or whole eggs (sometimes glue or milk). Tempera was widely used in Italian art in the 14th and 15th centuries, both for panel painting and fresco, then being replaced by oil paint. Tempera colors are bright and translucent, though because the paint dried very quickly there is little time to blend them, graduated tones being created by adding lighter or darker dots or lines of color to an area of dried paint., a technique that allowed for swift, spontaneous execution and lush, rich colours.
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