VASARI, Giorgio
(b. 1511, Arezzo, d. 1574, Firenze)

Wall decoration (detail)

1542-48
Fresco
Casa del Vasari, Arezzo

The picture shows a detail from the wall on the entrance side of the Sala del Camino (Room of the Hearth), with a painted figure of the multi-breasted Ephesian Diana, a symbol of fertility of nature. Below, a scene from the Myths of Jupiter, and on the right, a trompe-l'oeil door with the figure of a woman reading in the recess of a window.