Olympus
Lorenzo de'Ferrari
1743–1744
- Medium
- Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 90 × 69 cm (35 7/16 × 27 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintgraphiteinkpen and ink drawingsgouachewashprints and drawingwatercolorpaper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
This large sheet is the final study for Ferrari's ceiling decoration in the Galleria Dorata in Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi, in Genoa, which he completed in 1743-1744. The composition depicts a scene from Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, when the goddess Venus appreaches Jupited on Olympus to lament her son Aeneas's adversities.
