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Photographing the ceiling at Marlborough House
The Marlborough House ceiling by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi

Learn about the history of this magnificent ceiling

ORAZIO GENTILESCHI (1563-1639) & ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (1593-1652)

Personification of Sculpture

c. 1635-8

193 cm (sight diameter) (sight diameter) | RCIN 408468

A seated female figure, in profile to the left, dressed in white and blue; her hand around a portrait sculpture of a boy on a pedestal

The image of the complete ceiling is an attempt at arranging photographic reproductions of the canvases in their original location at The Queen's House during the 1980s.

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