The Triumph of Peace
by BEAUMONT, Claudio Francesco, Fresco
Beaumont’s contribution to the painting of the Palazzo Reale includes, in addition to four living rooms, two galleries, of which the Galleria della Regina, later named after him, is one of the largest (60 m long) and the most magnificent of its kind. The Galleria delle Battaglie in the west wing was erected only around 1733. Its painting in 1748 was a response to the Peace of Aachen (1748) which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.
The ceiling painting of the Galleria delle Battaglie combines The Triumph of Peace with an allegory on the victorious monarch’s (Carlo Emanuele III’s) benign rule.