Decoration (detail)

Scenes of farming and handicraft set in the middle of grotesques, in the place of motifs in a more traditional antique style, were frequently used for decoration at the end of the sixteenth century. They can be found in particular in the decoration of the Uffizi, on the ceilings of the rooms of the Armoury, painted in 1588 in a military and technological vein, and on that of the Stanzino delle Matematiche, where scientific instruments, machines and historical episodes related to the subject are presented.