"Large Representation Of The Aldobrandine Wedding"
Large and decorative representation of the Aldobrandine Wedding, named after Cardinal Aldobrandini who placed it in his collection when it was discovered in the 17th century. From Roman times, the original is in the Vatican Museum. It shows a goddess reassuring the future wife taken by a sudden virginal concern before the arrival of the husband who waits at the threshold. On the sides of the ritual or sacrificial scenes. It is made up of a dozen sheets of paper juxtaposed then mounted on canvas and painted with gouache in the first third of the 19th century and in the same dimensions as the Vatican frieze. Added frame