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Annibale had first decorated a small room ( and Caryatid -like figures hold up the painted framework. ''The Loves of the Gods'', or, as Bellori, the art critic of the next generation called it: Human Love Governed by Celestial Love is a meticulosly planned festive and dazzling array. In the center panel, the crowning Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne is a bacchanalian, but classically restrained, procession ferries , rides an ass. The figures carefully cavort in order to hide most naked male genitals. The program may refer to Ovid's Metamorphosis (VIII; lines 160-182) or a trifling carnival song-poem written by Lorenzo De Medici in about 1475, that entreats: [http://trionfi.com/0/gg/103/t.html] :Quest’è Bacco ed Arïanna, :belli, e l’un de l’altro ardenti: :perché ’l tempo fugge e inganna, :sempre insieme stan contenti. :Queste ninfe ed altre genti :sono allegre tuttavia. :Chi vuol esser lieto, sia: :di doman non c’è certezza. : ''Here are Bacchus and Ariadne,'' : ''Handsome, and burning for each other:'' : ''Because time flees and fools,'' : ''They stay together always content.'' : ''These nymphs and other gents'' : ''Are ever full of joy.'' : ''Let those who wish to be happy, be:'' : ''Of tomorrow, we have no certainty.'' It is difficult to represent in screen-size photographs the experience of a large frescoed salon, but other photos capture the larger perspectives. or [http://www.nd.edu/~artslide/itbar/htmls/PalFar.html The figures that spawn in individual scenes, each a masterpiece of their own. For example, see the ''Maiden and the Unicorn'' panel by the Carracci pupil Domenichino . In part, Carracci wished to bring to fresco the crowded sculpted scenes of Roman Sarcophagi . The mythologic themes is shockingly secular and seductive, specially when painted for family of the Pope, but probably served the need to season the romantic atmosphere of a vivacious salon party of the time. It is intellectual parlor pornography; specially when one sees the "bedding" scenes of Jove leading Juno, in which the fresco is restrained in comparison to earlier sketches or Venus and Anchise. Ludovico Carracci engraved uncensored graphic versions of the scenes. After completing this proto- Baroque or late- Mannerist fresco, Annibale by report entered a long depression, and none of his subsequent works in Rome or his hometown of Bologna had the same level of mastery. he would influence Pietro Da Cortona and Poussin in a subsequent generation. The density of figures would fuel debates in the next generation of fresco painters, Sacchi and Cortona ; clearly Carracci influenced Cortona. CRITICAL ASSESSMENT AND LEGACY To our modern eye, Carracci seems regressive and reactionary, unwilling to escape a classical thematic, that in our view has become stale. Rebellious artists such as at the foot of the Janiculum Hill on the Trastavere neighborhood). The Villa Farnesina is now the Academy Of Lincei in Rome, and is bullhorn distance from the Farnese across the Tiber, and there were plans then to join both by a bridge. =Visiting the Farnese Gallery= The coloful frescoes showing framed episodes amid atlantean architectural supports remind viewers of Michelangelo 's monumental work at the Sistine Chapel . But the urbane secular Farnese gallery frescos are far less penetrant of our collective subconscious than the ubiquitously-replicated Michelangelo episodes. Few tourists see the Farnese gallery in the flesh, relative to the almost universal experience of tourists as Sistine rubber-neckers. Italy and France, by treaty, have 99 year leases (expiring 2035) for use of respective palaces as embassy. It may, in a sense, have protected these works from fame, as well as from flash photography and humid exhalations. If you hunger for by their succulent dynamism and wish to partake in their visual feast, schedule an appointment (free) by phone or mail with the Servizio Culturale, French Embassy, Piazza Farnese 67, Rome 00186, Italy, Phone: 06-686011. Indicate when you wish to visit and provide a local phone number to receive confirmation a few days prior to your visit. PANELS OF FARNESE CEILING
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