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The prototype for the Loggias that the architect Giacomo
Quarenghi created for Catherine II in the 1780s was the celebrated
gallery in the Vatican Palace in Rome that was frescoed from sketches
by Raphael. The copies of the frescoes were made in the tempera technique
by a group of artists led by Christoph Unterberger. The vaults of
the gallery contain a cycle of paintings on subjects from the Holy
Scriptures, that are collectively known as "Raphael's Bible".
The walls are decorated with grotesque ornament, the motifs of which
appeared in Raphael's painting under the influence of murals in the
"grottos" - the ruins of the Golden House (the 1st-century
palace of Emperor Nero). |
