Vault painting
by SANDTNER, Carlo, Fresco
The picture shows a view of the Galleria Grande (now Galleria degli Specchi) in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. Its painting is the work of the Bavarian painter Carlo Sandtner. A heaven filled with gods occupy the centre of the ceiling, with banks of clouds creating the illusion of space. In the coping, with perspective foreshortening, the painter remained indebted to sixteenth-century tradition.