Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Artist: Corrado Giaquinto (Italian, 1703 - 1766)

Original Dimensions: 38" x 17"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1751) "This preparatory sketch for a ceiling shows a sky with classical figures arranged on clouds. At the top is Jupiter – the chief deity – holding a crown and accompanied by an eagle clutching a thunderbolt (his attributes). Beside him is Juno, his wife. Below them to the left are Venus and Cupid, and Bacchus reclining. To their right, Minerva presents a woman holding a spear to Jupiter: she may be a personification of Spain. Lower and to the centre, Hercules is defeating the multi-headed water monster Hydra with his club. His prominent position is due to his association with the Spanish monarchy – one of Hercules’s labours was to place columns in Gibraltar, marking the limit of what would later become the Spanish Empire. The ceiling painting is now in the Palazzo Rondinini-Sanseverino, Rome, but it was originally in the Palazzo Santa Croce in Palermo. The palace belonged to the Celesti family: they may have commissioned this allegory of the Spanish monarchy since the Spanish Bourbon king Charles III, ruler of the Kingdoms of Sicily and Naples, was crowned in Palermo." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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