Ceiling painting
by CORTONA, Pietro da, Fresco
The picture shows the centre of the ceiling painting in the Sala di Apollo. It depicts Apollo Instructing the Young Hero. Cortona left the ceiling unfinished when he returned to Rome in 1647. It was only in 1659, after the scaffolding had stood idle for twelve years that Cortona consented to having this ceiling finished by his Roman pupil Ciro Ferri, after cartoons based on his drawings.