GIULIO ROMANO
(b. ca. 1499, Roma, d. 1546, Mantova)

View of the Sala dei Giganti (south wall)

1532-34
Fresco
Sala dei Giganti, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

On this wall, the catastrophe is taking place in the foreground, the disaster seems to push its way into the viewer's space. The boulder construction collapses, the view of the landscape is partially blocked. fleeing and falling giants are crushed.