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Ceiling decoration

1768 · Palazzo Borghese, Rome

mythological

The ceiling fresco in the Sala di Udienza (audience room) in the ground floor of the Palazzo Borghese is a good example of the pictorial programs of ballrooms in private Roman palaces. It was painted by the Roman quadratura painter Ermenegildo Constantini in anticipation of a wedding on 1768. It presents an allegory on the house of Borghese and the arts that fully accords with the baroque formal idiom and iconographic repertoire.

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Ceiling decoration

About the Artist

Ermenegildo Constantini

1731 – 1791

Italian painter, active in Rome, Velletri, Recanati and Città di Castello. He was a pupil of Marco Benefial (1684-1764). He contributed to the decoration of the Palazzo Borghese in Rome. He painted frescoes at the Chapel of the SS Sacramento at Velletri, and at the gallery of the Palazzo Antici in Recanati. He made an altarpiece with a copy of a San Nicola da Tolentino by Raphael, now in the Pinacoteca Comunale, Città di Castello.

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