“Let no one think ever to see any work of the brush more horrifying, or more realistic, than this. And whoever enters that room cannot but fear that everything will fall upon him.” -
Giorgio Vasari
The Fall of the Giants is a masterpiece by the Italian Renaissance artist Giulio Romano, a pupil of Raphael.
His ineffable artistic abilities are showcased in the Palazzo del Te, in Mantua, renowned for its captivating illusionistic frescoes. Within the palazzo, in the Sala dei Giganti, Romano depicted the Gigantomachy, an episode from Greek mythology.
Executed between 1532 and 1534, this fresco draws inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Latin narrative poem from around 8 C.E. The scene portrays Jupiter's victory over the Giants, unleashing his lightning.
The Gigantomachy theme was popular in the Cinquecento fine arts, appreciated for its aesthetic possibilities and the myth's significance in conveying religious, moral, and political ideas for patrons of the time.
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