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Painting pink room

Gioacchino Martorana1764/1764

Palazzo Asmundo

Palazzo Asmundo
Palermo, Italy

The last painting (Sala Rosa) enhances the vigilance on sleep that indicates
the ignorance of the well symbolized as well as the sleeping
woman with the wings of the nocturnal bat and the closed book of
the figure standing next to her, while another figure assisted by
angels bearing symbols of awakening as the rooster and the lamp
indicates the path of knowledge and supreme divine truth, defined
by the female figure who reads from the open book.

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  • Title: Painting pink room
  • Creator: Gioacchino Martorana
  • Date Created: 1764/1764
  • Location Created: Palermo
  • Type: painting
  • Rights: Copyright Palazzo Asmundo 2018 - All right reserved
  • Medium: photo
Palazzo Asmundo

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