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Ceiling decoration

1772 · Villa Poggio Imperiale, Arcetri, Florence

mythological

The picture shows the ceiling painting, executed by Tommaso Gherardini and Giuseppe del Moro, in one of the rooms in the south suite of the Villa Poggio Imperiale. It depicts Emperor Constantine with the Edict of Milan, and the Triumph of the Faith. Emperor Constantine, seated on a cloud bank, has just been handed a scroll by two richly gowned female figures.

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Ceiling decoration

About the Artist

Tommaso Gherardini

1715 – 1797

Italian painter. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Meucci in Florence. He was much appreciated by the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo for his neoclassicist taste. In particular he introduced into Florence new types of decoration, the so-called Pompeian style and the fake bas-relief. From the 1740s he participated in the decoration of villas and palaces in Florence and its environment. He painted a hall of the Gallery of the Sufficing and also in the Imperial palace of Vienna. From 1769 to 1777 he painted a series of frescoes in the Villa Doggie Imperial, near Florence, together with Giuliano Traballesi and Giuseppe del Moro.

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