Ceiling decoration

mythological

The picture shows the ceiling fresco in the reading room of the library of the Accademia dei Lincei in the Palazzo Corsini. The shape of the frame alludes to Pietro da Cortona's ceiling in Santa Maria in Vallicella. This frame, especially characteristic of Rome, was popular both in sacred and secular contexts, and was also frequently used in horizontal-format compositions.

Loading map…

About the Artist

Vincenzo Meucci

1694 – 1766

Italian painter. He studied first with the painter Sebastiano Galeotti (1676-1741) in Florence, then with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. He was one of the most active fresco painters of his time. In 1742 he was commissioned by Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, the last Medici resident of the Pitti Palace, to fresco the cupola of the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence with the Glory of Florentine Saints. He executed frescoes, among others, in Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence (1746-48), in the Santa Verdiana (1747-51) in Florence, in the cathedral of Pistoia, in the Archbishop's Palace of Siena, in the library of Palazzo Corsini, in Rome (1748).

View all works →