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Summary
Girolamo Genga: Flight of Aeneas from Troy
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Artist
Girolamo Genga
(1476–1551)
Alternative names
disciple de Raphael Genga; Hieronimo Genga; G. Genga; Genga; Giolamo Genga
Description
painter, architect and sculptor
Date of birth/death
1476
11 July 1551
Location of birth/death
Urbino
Urbino
Work period
late Renaissance
Work location
Pesaro; Siena
Authority file
: Q920115
VIAF: 24871954
ISNI: 0000000116095495
ULAN: 500005411
LCCN: n83220007
WGA: g/genga
WorldCat
artist QS:P170,Q920115
Title
Flight of Aeneas from Troy
label QS:Lit,"Enea e Anchise in fuga da Troia in fiamme"
label QS:Len,"Flight of Aeneas from Troy"
Object type
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Motif of the Greek mythology (ancient)
Date
between 1507 and 1510
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1507-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1510-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
fresco
medium QS:P186,Q25631150
Dimensions
height: 126 cm (49.6 in); width: 138 cm (54.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,126U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,138U174728
Collection
Pinacoteca Nazionale
Native name
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena
Location
Siena
Coordinates
43° 18′ 56.25″ N, 11° 19′ 49.86″ E
Established
1932
Website
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena
Authority file
: Q2095405
VIAF: 126190178
ISNI: 0000000123146430
ULAN: 500308996
LCCN: n50067828
NLA: 36144954
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q2095405
References
Web Gallery of Art Fondazione Zeri 37289
Piero Torriti: La Pinacoteca nazionale di Siena: i dipinti, Vol. 3 books.google.de
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Flight of Aeneas from Troy (between 1507 and 1510)
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GENGA, Girolamo
(b. 1476, Urbino, d. 1551, La Valle)
Flight of Aeneas from Troy
1507-10
Fresco, 126 x 138 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
In 1511 Vittoria Piccolomini, niece to Pius III, married Borghese Petrucci, son of Pandolfo Petrucci, the ruler of Siena. This alliance was duly commemorated in one of the principal rooms in the Palazzo Petrucci in Siena. (The Petrucci coat-of-arms quartered with that of the Piccolomini appear on many of the pavement tiles and in three places on the surviving woodwork from this room.) Located in a medieval tower, the base of which became the principal entrance of the building, early sixteenth-century references to this third-floor room suggest that it originally functioned as an audience chamber where Pandolfo received guests and conducted official business. Nothing of the sixteenth-century painted decoration remains in the room today but it is clear from two eighteenth-century descriptions that it was originally decorated with eight fresco paintings representing classical subject matter, five of which survive today (the Triumph of Chastity and the Coriolanus Persuaded by his Family to Spare Rome both by Luca Signorelli in the National Gallery, London; the Return of Ulysses by Pinturicchio in the National Gallery, London; Fabius Maximus Ransoming Prisoners from Hannibal and the Flight of Aeneas from Troy, both by Girolamo Genga in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena) and three are lost (two by Luca Signorelli and one by Pinturicchio). While all the surviving paintings demonstrate both the complex nature of the imagery chosen and Pandolfo's taste for antiquity, each of the painters retained his distinctive style.
Genga in his painting of the Flight of Aeneas from Troy shows Aeneas's wife, Creusa, in a loose robe that is not dissimilar to those worn by women in antiquity. Her central position and spectacular pose underline the drama of the event, as recounted in Virgil's Aeneid, whereby she became separated from her husband, father-in-law and young son. In his representation of this calamitous event, Genga took the opportunity to convey different atmospheric effects, such as the smoke-laden city of Troy in the background and the reflection of moonlight on the domed roof of a temple on the left.
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Author: GENGA, Girolamo
Title: Flight of Aeneas from Troy
Time-line: 1501-1550
School: Italian
Form: painting