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

Decoration in rooms of grotesques (detail)

1564-66
Fresco
Villa Emo Capodilista, Fanzolo di Vedelago

Two small rooms of grotesques conclude the decorative cycle of the villa. Here cupids, satyrs, garlands of roses, pergolas, birds, fish, and a variety of animals are distributed on the walls without any thematic intention but with great fantasy and compositional richness.




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