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Mantegna's playful ceiling presents an oculus that fictively opens into a blue sky, with foreshortened putti playfully frolicking around a balustrade painted in di sotto in sù to seem as if they occupy real space on the roof above.
Sep 8, 2020 · Illustration. The painted oculus in the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy. Painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna, 1465-74 CE.
Andrea Mantegna. 1431-1506. Italian painter, sculptor, printmaker and engraver. Ceiling Oculus. 1471-1474. 270 x 270 cms | 106 1/4 x 106 1/4 ins. Fresco. Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace. Mantua | Italy. Credit: Web Gallery of Art. Next. A Sibyl and a Prophet. ARC.
On the vaulted ceiling of this small square room is the famous circular window, or oculus, which Mantegna used to create the illusion of a painted space with an open view upward into the heavens for the first time in the history of western art.
Page of Ceiling Oculus by MANTEGNA, Andrea in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)
Mantegna's ceiling oculus fresco in Camera degli Sposi (1465-74) is particularly notable for its depiction of the sky, as if the oculus truly led to the outside world, but a world populated by fantastical creatures.
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Apr 14, 2023 · 3. Ceiling & Oculus: Seminal Illusionist Work. The ceiling is the most celebrated part of the Camera degli Sposi. It’s adorned with fictive, but hyperrealistic, ribs and relief panels to give a sense of decoration over the medieval vaults. Mantegna uses classical elements from Imperial Rome that would go on to dominate the High Renaissance.
