The entire depiction emanates an untrammelled joie-de-vivre and is infused with poetic serenity. The subtly gradated washes produce soft, delicate transitions and bathe the scene in a mild light.
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The gods, full of self-confidence and completely at their ease, are enthroned in the clouds. The drawing has been executed in the flowing, elegant style that is the hallmark of Novelli’s work. Born in Venice and trained there by Jacopo Amigoni, Novelli worked between 17 in Rome, where he attracted the attention of Prince Marcantonio Borghese, who commissioned him to paint the Stanza di Psiche. Although Novelli produced compositions of his own, his painting was strongly influenced by Raphael’s classicism. In executing the cycle he drew inspiration from the famous prototype by Raphael in the Villa Farnesina in Rome. In addition to the main ceiling painting Novelli painted four framing medallions illustrating further episodes in the story. If a picture with the perspective of a panel painting is shifted to the ceiling, it is called a 'quadro finto' (fictitious. To view a quadro riportato work, one must stand in a particular spot in order. A narrative scene painted on a wall as a framed picture was referred to as a 'quadro riportato,' which to seventeenth-century thinking suggested that a framed panel painting had been translated into the medium of fresco. Jupiter points nonchalantly to the magic potion in Ganymede’s hand that will give Psyche immortality and enable her to marry Amor. Quadro riportato is a wall mural that is executed on a curved ceiling vault. It is used in art to describe easel paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and. The depiction is of the moment supreme in the story in which Psyche, accompanied by Mercury, is welcomed into Mount Olympus. Quadro riportato is the Italian phrase for carried picture. The drawing reproduces the central quadro riportato which Pietro Antonio Novelli painted in 1781 for the Stanza di Psiche in the Villa Borghese in Rome. This charming scene depicts an episode from the history of Amor and Psyche by Apuleius ( Metamorphoses, Books 4–6). It is the Italian phrase for ‘carried picture’. Pen and black and some brown ink, grey wash. The term Quadro Riportato means transported painting.
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