{"id":694,"date":"2019-05-28T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it\/en\/?page_id=694"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:58:50","slug":"sala-4-sala-degli-imperatori","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/il-museo\/la-villa\/sala-4-sala-degli-imperatori\/","title":{"rendered":"Room 4 &#8211; Room of the Emperors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-694\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-694-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-694-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-694-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Room 4, the Emperors\u2018 Room<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The name of the room \u2013 also known as \u201cGallery\u201c \u2013 derives from the presence of the 18 porphyry and alabaster busts of the <em>Twelve Caesars<\/em><em>, with several replicas and the goddess Juno, executed by an anonymous artist of the seventeenth century and placed along the walls at the beginning of the nineteenth century. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mounting was designed by the architect <strong>Antonio Asprucci <\/strong>(1723-1808), who conceived the furnishings based on the juxtaposition of a great variety of marbles.<br \/>\nOn the large ceiling are paintings by <strong>Domenico de Angelis <\/strong>(1735-1804) based on the vicissitudes of the nymph \u00a0Galatea as recounted by Ovid in his<em> Metamorphoses<\/em> (1778 - 1780) . In the centre is <em>The Triumph of Galatea<\/em>, daughter of\u00a0 Nereus, who is desired by the cyclops Polyphemus (portrayed on the left) and loved by the shepherd Acis (on the right). The two side ovals depict <em>The Jelousy of Polyphemus<\/em>, who hurls a rock to kill Acis, and <em>Galatea\u2019s Farewell to Acis<\/em>, who Polyphemus has transformed into a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the paintings in Pompeii, the architectural trompe l\u2019oeil is the work of <strong>Giovanni Battista Marchetti <\/strong>(1730-1800), while the small oval medallions with the symbols of the <em>Constellations<\/em>, the circular <em>grisailles <\/em>with the <em>Signs of the Zodiac<\/em>, and the personifications of the four seasons were executed by <strong>Gioacchino Agricola <\/strong>(active 1758-1795). Beneath the moulding of the ceiling are eleven stucco panels depicting scenes connected with sea gods, which were executed by various artists between 1778 and 1779.<br \/>\nThe walls of the room are decorated by four panels with mosaics depicting grottesques alternated with marble pilasters with gilded bronze capitals, in which are inserted frames with stucco cameos on a background of blue mosaic.<\/p>\n<p>There are six niches in the walls with classical sculptures, including the so-called Borghese-type <em>Artemis<\/em> in Pentelic marble (120-130 C.E.).<br \/>\nThe four large marble vases with depictions of putti, <em>Allegory of the Four Seasons<\/em>, were executed in 1785 by Massimiliano Laboreur (1739-1812) and Lorenzo Cardelli (active in the second half of the eighteenth century). The theme of the seasons also returns in the gilded bronze masks executed by Luigi Valadier (1726-1785), which adorn the precious octagonal porphyry tables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the room is the <a href=\"http:\/\/galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it\/index.php?it\/95\/bernini-ratto-di-proserpina\">Rape of Proserpina<\/a>, the first autograph work of <strong>Gian Lorenzo Bernini <\/strong>(1598-1680), who executed it in one year in 1621-22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room 4, the Emperors\u2018 Room &nbsp; The name of the room \u2013 also known as \u201cGallery\u201c \u2013 derives from the presence of the 18 porphyry and alabaster busts of the Twelve Caesars, with several replicas and the goddess Juno, executed by an anonymous artist of the seventeenth century and placed along the walls at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13282,"parent":356,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template\/page-room.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Room 4 - Room of the Emperors - Galleria Borghese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/il-museo\/la-villa\/sala-4-sala-degli-imperatori\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Room 4 - Room of the Emperors - Galleria Borghese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Room 4, the Emperors\u2018 Room &nbsp; 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