Mythological Scene of Agriculture

Mythological Scene of Agriculture

Artist: Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634 - 1705)

Original Dimensions: 47 3/4" x 75 5/8"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (Early 1680s) "This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of 12 that Giordano made in preparation for the ceiling frescoes in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence in 1682–85. The overall theme of these highly elaborate, showpiece frescoes is the progress of mankind by means of Wisdom and Virtue. This scene corresponds with the right half of the ceiling decoration above the north wall of the grand Galleria, opposite the windows. Its theme is fertility. Ceres, goddess of agriculture, is sowing a field ploughed by the muscular Triptolemus, who also had agricultural associations. Flora, the flower goddess, sits with her back turned; watering the soil close by is the wind god Zephyr. Between them is Vertumnus, protector of gardens and husband of Pomona, goddess of orchards, who is pruning a pomegranate tree at the left. Ceres’s sister Juno rides a chariot drawn by two peacocks, while in the foreground a river god sits astride a stream." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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