Olympus
Lorenzo de'Ferrari
1743/1744
Medium
Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper
Dimensions
90 × 69 cm (35 7/16 × 27 3/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
99521
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This large sheet is the final study for Ferrari's ceiling decoration in the Galleria Dorata in Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi, in Genoa, which he completed in 1743-1744. The composition depicts a scene from Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, when the goddess Venus appreaches Jupited on Olympus to lament her son Aeneas's adversities.