Murals in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, Italy, painted in the 16th century. A boy sat on a mask from a frieze in a grand room at bottom, and a mural with five genies harvesting grapes from the casino at top. Handcoloured lithograph by Dettmers from an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn in his own "Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthumlichen Farben dargestellt." (Ornaments of all classical art epochs after the originals and depicted in their proper colours.), Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1870. It includes interior decorations by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del T
Murals in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, Italy, painted in the 16th century. A boy sat on a mask from a frieze in a grand room at bottom, and a mural with five genies harvesting grapes from the casino at top. Handcoloured lithograph by Dettmers from an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn in his own "Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthumlichen Farben dargestellt." (Ornaments of all classical art epochs after the originals and depicted in their proper colours.), Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1870. It includes interior decorations by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, medieval mosaics in Sicily, and Roman wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Wilhelm Zahn (1800-1871) was a German artist, architect and academic who traveled around Europe documenting classical and Renaissance architecture.
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