Semi-Gods_Ceiling
Semi-Gods Ceiling
Painting by Pinturicchio
The Demi-Gods Ceiling is a painted coffered ceiling by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio, dating to c. 1490 and housed in the last of the suite of reception rooms in the Palazzo dei Penitenzieri in Rome, Italy. It comprises 63 octagonal coffers in gilded wood, decorated with allegoric and mythological figures on a faux-mosaic background, and painted on paper.
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The work was commissioned by Cardinal Domenico della Rovere, at the time patron of the young Pinturicchio.