23/09/2023
In 1597, in Rome, Annibale Carracci began the decoration of the gallery of Palazzo Farnese: twenty meters long, six meters wide, barrel-vaulted. Around the central representation of Bacchus and Ariadne, between fake herms and caryatids, mythological fables allude to the classic and naturalistic theme of the triumph of Love.
Annibale's program, supported by the trends of the most advanced Roman culture, is the integral revaluation of classical culture and the Renaissance: the reference to Michelangiolo and Raphael, at the time of the Sistine Chapel and that of the Farnesina, was therefore inevitable.
