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This fresco in the Villa Borghese, housing the Galleria Borghese, decorates the ceiling of a large room, called Sala della Loggia. Originally the room was a loggia opening onto the park of the villa, hence its name.
In the fresco Lanfranco created an imaginary entablature in perspective, supported by telamones alternating with lunettes containing personifications of the Rivers of the Earth. At the centre is set the scene of the gods gathered in council around Jupiter, which draws on the tradition of the great decorative cycles of Annibale Carracci and Correggio. Between 1779 and 1782 the fresco, left unfinished by Lanfranco and now seriously deteriorated, was restored and completed by Domenico Corvi (1721-1803).
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