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Giovanni Battista Carlone - Jupiter and Astrea
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Giovanni Andrea Carlone - The torture of Prometheus
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Domenico Parodi - The Triumph of Bacchus
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Valerio Castello - The fame of the Balbi
Giovanni Battista Carlone - Jupiter and Astrea
Giovanni Andrea Carlone - The torture of Prometheus
Domenico Parodi - The Triumph of Bacchus
Valerio Castello - The fame of the Balbi

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Description

Bacchus and the other deities frescoed in the Gallery of Mirrors symbolize the cause of the ruin of the great empires of the past: they are the representatives of the religion of the ancients who never knew the Christian faith. Unlike the Durazzo family, patrons of this cycle of frescoes, they identify themselves as defenders of Christian virtues. The fresco "The Triumph of Bacchus" occupies the eastern dome above the entrance. The scene is conceived in an imaginary space above the clouds, in a semicircular terrace. In the center is Bacchus on a golden chariot pulled by two leopards, he is crowned by a branch of ivy and has the classical composure of an ancient statue, naked and only partially covered by a leopard skin. Grab a rod with ivy twisted around it, a symbol of fertility. A maenad dances in front of him, shaking his eardrum; in the foreground a young man and a satiress sleep drunk on the clouds and Arianna is naked and at the center of the scene. The episode depicted seems similar to that of the meeting between Bacchus and Ariadne, just before the triumph.

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