Gesicht eines älteren gehörnten Fausts mit grauem Walrosshurrbart und Augenbrauen, vergoldetem Bart und tierischen geschwungenen und spitzen Ohren: Beispiel für Mitte der 1500er Jahre n. Chr., manieristische Grotesken der Spätrenaissance, die den ersten Hof oder das Cortile di Michelozzo des Palazzo Vecchio schmücken, mittelalterliches Rathaus auf der Piazza della Signoria, Florenz, Toskana, Italien. Wandgemälde hier zeigen mythische Lebewesen, Vögel und Blumen.
4153 x 2763 px | 35,2 x 23,4 cm | 13,8 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
15. Juli 2010
Ort:
Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Face of an elderly horned faun with a grey walrus moustache and grey eyebrows, pointed ears and a gilded beard: typical example of the mid-1500s CE Late Renaissance Mannerist grotesques decorating the walls of the First Courtyard or Cortile di Michelozzo in the Palazzo Vecchio or Old Palace in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The grotesques were painted from 1540 onwards, after the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519 - 1574), decided to refashion and redecorate the 13th century town hall to transform it into his ducal palace. At the time, it was known as the Palazzo della Signoria. The architect, painter, art historian and biographer, Georgio Vasari (1511 - 1574) was one of many artists and craftsmen engaged in turning the town hall into the Palazzo Ducale. However, it was renamed Palazzo Vecchio after Cosimo later decided to again move his ducal residence, to the Pitti Palace on the other side of the River Arno. Two leading Renaissance painters were among the artists responsible for the grotesques in the First Courtyard and some neighbouring rooms: Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1483 - 1561) and Marco Marchetti da Faenza (ca. 1526 -1588). The iconic Palazzo Vecchio, founded in 1299, was the seat of civic power in Florence from the early 1300s and it is still the town hall. It was begun by Arnolfo di Cambio, architect of Florence’s Duomo and the Church of Sante Croce. The First Courtyard was designed in 1453 by the architect known as Michelozzo (Michelozzo di Bartolmeo, 1396 - 1472), a favourite of the Grand Duke’s ancestor, Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (1389 - 1464). D0675.A8070
