CASTELLO, Valerio
(b. 1624, Genova, d. 1659, Genova)

View of the former loggia

1657
Fresco
Palazzo Balbi Senarega, Genoa

The loggia in the Palazzo Balbi Senarega was closed for saving the frescoes representing the Olympian gods, painted by Valerio Castello on the ceiling vault. The result is a very long, narrow gallery, whose highly animated assembly of deities seems much too large for the space, despite fragment of quadratura.