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Description: Destruction of the Giants/Fall of the Giants from Mount Olympus

TitleDestruction of the Giants/Fall of the Giants from Mount Olympus

Creator nameRomano, Giulio

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1530–1535

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

LocationPalazzo del Te, Mantua, Italy

SubjectsMural painting and decoration, Renaissance--ItalyArchitecture--OrdersMythology, Greek, in artPalazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy)

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Chapter 3: The Diaspora of Roman Style

Marcia B. Hall

After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century

After the sack, when painters fled rome in search of personal safety and work, several found positions at courts that provided them with job security. The long-term result of the Sack was not the collapse of Rome as the leading artistic center of central Italy, for Rome revitalized itself in the 1530s. Rather, it was the transfer of Roman style to...

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Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.95-128

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyRaphael, 1483-1520Mantua (Italy)Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1500-1540Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546Tapestry, Renaissance--ItalyVasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574Bologna (Italy)Parma (Italy)Parmigianino, 1503-1540Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540

XXI. Sixteenth-Century Choices

John Onians

Description: Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the...

Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

BY THE mid-sixteenth century, in Italy at least, status, morality, and character were the three principal factors which were recognized as influencing the selection of architectural forms...

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John Onians

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.310-330

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00026.025

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, Renaissance--ItalyChurch architecture--ItalyPalazzo Farnese (Rome, Italy)Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy)Fortification--ItalyFortificationArchitecture--Political aspects--Italy

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