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Raising the Columns on the River Ganges, 1650-52 (wall tempera painting)

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GRL8683555
Image title
Raising the Columns on the River Ganges, 1650-52 (wall tempera painting)
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Artist
Boulanger, Jean (1606-c.1680) / French
Photographer
Ghigo Roli
Location
Palazzo Ducale, Gallerie Estensi, Sassuolo, Emilia Romagna, Italy
Medium
wall tempera painting
Image description

Sassuolo, Este Ducal Palace, the Bacchus Gallery: “Raising the Columns on the River Ganges”. The faux tapestry from which a putto peeks out depicts a vast river landscape dominated in the foreground by the scaffolding of the two Corinthian columns. Bacchus, seated on a boulder, observes the numerous workers with ropes and winches. It is one of the forty-one panels with scenes painted by Jean Boulanger which narrate the events of Bacchus. Wall tempera painting, 1650 - 52.

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Image keywords
17th century / architecture / art / Bacchus / god / mythological figure / mythology / column / river / fresco / painting / Ganges / India / Asia / Italy / Europe / palace / ruin / cherub
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Large 4363 × 4160 px 369 × 352 mm 6.9 MB
Medium 1024 × 977 px 87 × 83 mm 1.5 MB

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