GHERARDINI, Tommaso
(b. 1715, Firenze, d. 1797, Firenze)

Ceiling decoration

after 1772
Fresco
Villa Poggio Imperiale, Arcetri, Florence

The picture shows the ceiling painting, executed by Tommaso Gherardini and Giuseppe del Moro, in one of the rooms in the south suite of the Villa Poggio Imperiale. It depicts Emperor Constantine with the Edict of Milan, and the Triumph of the Faith. Emperor Constantine, seated on a cloud bank, has just been handed a scroll by two richly gowned female figures. This is the edict of tolerance issued in Milan in A.D. 313 by Constantine and Licinius, emperors of the western and eastern empires, respectively. It granted to Christians free mandate to follow their religion.




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