... at ... http://books.google.com/books?id=g0CJFN ... io&f=falseThis was followed, a year later, by a performance of Cefalo [a theatre play], one of the oldest of Italian dramas, a pastoral play by Nicolo da Correggio [the poet from Ferrara], chiefly taken from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and which is said have suggested the subjects of Correggio's [Correggio the painter] in the Abbess of San Paolo's parlour at Parma.
... and became interested. I detected this ceiling ...
http://parma.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/2097791/2/6
... which has 16 units and at its basis pictures of gods, so somehow "16 gods". I thought of the Michelino deck and I think I should check the details:
This the chimney picture (Diana) and belongs not to the 16 gods.
The room from another perspective.
Interpreted as punished Juno, one of the 16 gods.
3 Graces, one picture of the 16 gods.
... all from http://www.abcgallery.com/C/correggio/correggio.html
...all from http://www.frammentiarte.it/dal%20Gotic ... reschi.htm
I'm not sure, but it seems that all gods seem to be governed by putti-twins. This two gods I can't identify for the moment.
Correggio, Rea Silvia o Ino Leucotea con Bacco fanciullo, 1518-19, affresco, Camera della Badessa, Convento di San Paolo, Parma
http://www.italica.rai.it/rinascimento/ ... ot_258.htm
http://www.arengario.net/momenti/momenti24.html
http://www.engramma.it/engramma_v4/rivi ... antis.html
That's, what I could fish from the web .... would be nice to find a list with the names of all the gods.
The whole is said to be done for the private rooms of a nunnery and for a female commissioner.
The twin-putti give the idea, that we've again to do with the Gemini and Castor + Pollux - idea, which we meet also in the Minchiate, the wedding book of 1475 and also at the world card in the PMB-part of the second artist.