Fall of the Giants (Romano)

The Fall of the Giants is a large fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Giulio Romano. It is located in the southern corner of the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy in the Sala dei Giganti. Romano worked on this fresco from 1532 to 1534. It depicts the myth of the Gigantomachy, the battle between the Olympian gods, led by Jupiter, and the giants. Romano's source for this story was Ovid's Metamorphoses.[1]

Fall of the Giants
ArtistGiulio Romano
Year1532-1534
Mediumfresco
LocationPalazzo del Te, Mantua

References
  • Bazzoti, Ugo, Grazia Sgrilli, Ghigo Roli, and Grace Bromelow. 2013. Palazzo Te: Giulio Romano's Masterwork in Mantua. London: Thames and Hudson.
  • Dandelet, Thomas James. 2014. The renaissance of empire in early modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Tafuri, Manfredo. (1998). Giulio Romano (English ed., Architecture in early modern Italy). Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pierguidi, S. (2004). "Gigantomachia" and the Wheel of Fortune in Giulio Romano, Vincenzo Cartari and Anton Francesco Doni, and the Authorship of the "Asinesca Gloria". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 67, 275-284.

Notes
  1. Gradella, Laura. "Chamber of the Giants". Musei Civici. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
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