LOGGIA OF GALATEA

The guests of Agostino Chigi coming from the loggia of Psyche could go in the loggia of Galatea, which, facing east, envisaged the Tiber, to which sloped gardens.

The loggia, designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi, was painted: by Raphael, to whom we owe the Triumph of Galatea; by Sebastiano del Piombo, who painted the gigantic Polyphemus and the lunette on the west wall, north wall and south wall, while the same Peruzzi frescoed hexagons and sails on the vault, which represent the horoscope of Agostino Chigi.

Always Peruzzi was responsible for the lunetta with the portrait of a young, long erroneously attributed to Michelangelo and still Peruzzi painted the two large frescoes at the center of the ceiling.

The other paintings are later, were commissioned around 1650 by Cardinal Girolamo Farnese and represent landscapes.

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