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Palacio Pitti, Florencia, Italia, 2022-09-18, DD 157-159 HDR
2022-09-18
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Ceiling fresco, Hall of Ulysses, Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy. At the time of the Medici, this was the bedroom of the Grand Duke. From about 1775 the room was part of the apartment of Maria Theresa of Habsburg-Lorraine and after the restoration it was used, with the nearby rooms, as a gallery. In this period, after 1814, Ferdinand III commissioned Gaspare Martellini (1785-1857) to paint the fresco "Ulysses' return to Ithaca" on the ceiling (alluding to the return of the grand duke after his exile in the Napoleonic period), with a frieze decorated at the corners with allegories of Fidelity, Fortitude, Hercules and Apollo.
