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The Council of the Gods
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The Council of the GodsGiovanni Lanfranco

Lanfranco’s grand ceiling fresco (1624–25) fills the Sala della Loggia with divine spectacle. Jupiter reigns at the center, surrounded by Roman deities including Venus, Mars, Pluto, and Juno. Designed to dissolve architectural limits, the illusionistic sky transforms the ceiling into a heavenly theater of Baroque power and myth.
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