title: Some Remarks about the Ceiling Painting of Bartolomeo Tarsia from the Dance Hall of the Great Peterhof Palace
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metadata.value: Sokolova, Iana S.
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metadata.value: 2023-01-20T13:26:21Z
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metadata.value: 2023-01-20T13:26:21Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Sokolova, Iana. “Some Remarks about the Ceiling Painting of Bartolomeo Tarsia from the Dance Hall of the Great Peterhof Palace”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 4 (2022): 628–646. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.404 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38885
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metadata.value: This paper is dedicated to the painting ceiling created in the middle of the 18th century by the
  Venetian artist Bartolomeo Tarsia for the Dance Hall of the Great Peterhof Palace. The plafond
  was badly destroyed during the Second World War and was re-painted by Soviet artists
  in the second half of the last century from preserved pre-war photographs and a preparatory
  drawing. These documents formed the basis of our research. Starting from the 19th century,
  the subject of the plafond is interpreted mainly as “Apollo and the Muses on mount Parnassus”.
  An accurate examination and analysis of Tarsia’s preparatory drawing, along with an appeal to
  well-known prototypes from Western European painting, made it possible to come to some
  conclusions about the subject of the artwork, the nature of its iconography, and also to revise
  the established interpretation. In particular, we considered the problem of the iconography of
  Parnassus and Helikon, we also noted the co-presence on the ceiling of the figures of Minerva,
  the Muses and Pegasus, referring to one specific episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; it was
  also discovered that in the Tarsia’s native Republic of Venice — in Padua — there is a plafond
  by Giuseppe Le Gru, known as the “Triumph of the Sciences”, correlated in time of creation
  and content to Tarsia’s plafond. Like Parnassus, the subject with Minerva and/or Apollo and
  the Muses on Mount Helicon has an allegorical meaning — the prosperity and glory of the
  sciences and arts. The Peterhof plafond also has this allegorical character. The image of the
  supreme goddess Juno crowning the composition serves as an additional confirmation of this,
  and also allows us to attribute this ceiling to examples of the embodiment of female mythological
  iconography, which generally corresponds to the logic of the decorative decoration of the
  palace and corresponds to the spirit of the time. In addition, the possible parallels with other
  works of the middle of the 18th century, with which the Peterhof plafond shows ideological
  and compositional similarity, are proposed in the paper. Among such examples, there is one
  of the illustrations by Giambattista Piazzetta for the grandiose Venetian edition of “La Gerusalemme
  liberata (Jerusalem delivered)” by Torquato Tasso in 1745.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bartolomeo Tarsia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Peterhof Grand Palace
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monumental painting
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 18th century art
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Torquato Tasso
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: La Gerusalemme Liberata
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Giambattista Piazzetta
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Minerva
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Helicon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Parnassus
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metadata.value: Some Remarks about the Ceiling Painting of Bartolomeo Tarsia from the Dance Hall of the Great Peterhof Palace
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