ZELOTTI, Giovanni Battista
(b. 1526, Verona, d. 1578, Mantova)

Girolamo Godi

1561-65
Fresco
Villa Godi Malinverni, Lonedo di Lugo Vicentino

In the central hall of the villa, in one of the two illusory windows, seated on a marble bench, a gentleman in sixteenth-century dress - probably the client, Girolamo Godi - turns his back on a landscape that is setting for The Rape of Ganymede.