Halb Mensch, halb Vogel und halb Ziege, halb Fisch: Mythische Hybridwesen, ein androgyner geflügelter Mensch und das astrologische Steinbock-Symbol, eine Meerziege oder Ziegenfische, in typischer Spätrenaissance Mitte der 1500er Jahre n. Chr., manieristische Grotesken Fresko im ersten Hof oder Cortile di Michelozzo des Palazzo Vecchio, mittelalterliches Rathaus der Piazza della Signoria, Florenz, Toskana, Italien.
4101 x 2733 px | 34,7 x 23,1 cm | 13,7 x 9,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
15. Juli 2010
Ort:
Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Two mythical hybrid creatures, a half-human, half-bird and a horned sea goat combining the head and legs of a goat with the scaly body and tail of a fish, face each other in an Italian Late Renaissance fresco. The painting is among 16th century CE Mannerist grotesques on walls in the Cortile di Michelozzo or First Courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The winged bird-human, with feathers for legs, places a hand on the sea goat’s chest. In Classical mythology, the sea goat or goat fish is linked to the Capricornus star constellation and is the Zodiacal sign of Capricorn. Ancient Greeks related Capricornus to the nature god Pan. In the myth, Pan jumps into the River Nile to escape the monster Typhon, but manages to turn only his lower body into a fish. Zeus defeats Typhon, but at the cost of the monster pulling muscles from his legs. Pan succeeds in replacing the muscles and as a reward, Zeus places Pan in the sky as Capricorn. Like sea goats, men or women combined with birds existed in many ancient mythologies. The best-known examples were harpies, with the bodies of birds and the faces and torsos of women. The grotesques were painted from 1540, after Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519 - 1574), ordered Florence’s 13th century Palazzo della Signoria town hall to be transformed into his ducal palace. Georgio Vasari (1511 - 1574) was among architects, artists and craftsmen who created the Palazzo Ducale, but it was later renamed Palazzo Vecchio after Cosimo moved again, to the Pitti Palace. The courtyard grotesques were mostly painted by two Renaissance artists: Marco Marchetti da Faenza (ca. 1526 - 1588) and Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1483 - 1561). The Palazzo Vecchio was the hub of civic power in Florence from the early 1300s. It was begun by architect Arnolfo di Cambio, with the First Courtyard designed in 1453 by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo. D0684.A8181
