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In love with Polyphemus by Annibale Carracci

In love with Polyphemus by Annibale Carracci

The ceiling frescoes of the Farnese Gallery produced among the contemporaries of Carracci the effect of a bomb exploding. Before this artist was considered a talented painter – but only. Now they started talking about him, as one of the best masters of Italy.

Connoisseurs compared the murals of Palazzo Farnese with the paintings of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and found that the work of Carracci was no worse than the work of Michelangelo. The same high opinion of frescoes the master adhered to in the XVII and XVIII centuries. Here it is necessary to say that, when comparing Carracci and Michelangelo, we admit a great inaccuracy. Yes, their works are similar in scale and majesty, but they are completely different in mood.

The frescoes of the hero of our release differ more than Michelangelo’s, and they foreshadow, therefore, the appearance of the Baroque style. And, finally, the most important thing: there are no biblical motifs in the Palazzo Farnese paintings, whereas the Sistine Chapel is the triumph of religious painting. Each fragment of the murals of the Farnese Gallery is permeated with light eroticism.

For example, in the plot of “Jupiter and Juno,” taken from the Iliad, the queen of the gods seduces her husband, wanting to divert his attention from the events of the Trojan War. Jupiter, who is melting with love, can not resist such a temptation and puts his terrible trident aside.

Frescos on the walls of the gallery are devoted to the history of Polyphemus and Galatea. The “Beloved Polyphemus” panel depicts a Cyclops, embraced by fire, trying to seduce a sea nymph by playing with a flute. A large central panel on the vault represents the “Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne”. The last plot, perhaps, was suggested to the artist by the scientist Fulvio Orsini, the librarian of Farnese and the curator of the collection of antiquities. The scenes in the Farnese gallery are not linked by a single plot, and their visual “coupling” is accomplished through the flow of one form into another, one color in another color.

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