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Aetas Felicior Hall

Jacopo Zanguidi alias "Bertoja" and Girolamo MirolaXVI sec.

Palazzo Ducale del Giardino

Palazzo Ducale del Giardino
Parma, Italy

Vault. Born by the collaboration of Jacopo Zanguidi, known as "Il Bertoja", and Girolamo Mirola, the hall of the kiss was probably painted between the 60'/70' of 1500. The general theme of the room is summed up in the engraving that sorrounds the central fresco of the vault, where is portrayed a lying Venus who turns her sight to Eros and turns her shoulders to a satyr: "AETAS FELICIOR", which means "THE HAPPIEST TIME". The scenes painted take their inspiration from the "Orlando Furioso" by Matteo Maria Boiardo and the pictorical cycle starts in the vault to follow in a clockwise direction from the western wall. A second inscription follows the ornament between the walls and the vault: "TRAHETAS SUA QUEMQUAE VOLUPTAS"; an hemistichium of Virgil which was wrongly transcripted and means "EVERYONE IS ATTRACTED BY ITS OWN PLEASURE".

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  • Title: Aetas Felicior Hall
  • Creator: Jacopo Zanguidi alias "Bertoja", Girolamo Mirola
  • Date Created: XVI sec.
  • Location: Parma, Italy
  • Location Created: Sala dell'Aetas Felicior, Palazzo Ducale del Giardino
  • Type: Fresco
  • Rights: Sistema Museale di Parma
Palazzo Ducale del Giardino

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