View of the ceiling

1562 · Camera dell'Aurora, Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola

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Connecting to the Sala del Concilio is the private apartment of the cardinal, bedchamber (Camera dell'Aurora), dressing room (Stanza dei Lanifici), and study (Stanza della Solitudine). The general theme of the decoration in the Camera dell'Aurora is related to Night, as a fitting subject for a bedchamber. Zuccaro painted an illusionistic opening of the ceiling through which the sky at daybreak can be seen with several allegoric figures (Aurora, Night, Sleep, Death, Moon, Mercury).

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About the Artist

Taddeo Zuccaro

1529 – 1566

Italian Mannerist painter, brother of Federico Zucccaro (c. 1540-1609), from the neighbourhood of Urbino. He worked mainly in Rome and although he was only 37 when he died he had made a great name for himself as a fresco decorator, working most notably for the Farnese family in their palace at Caprarola. His style was based on Michelangelo and Raphael and tended to be rather dry and wooden.

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