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Eric Hupe
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Eric Hupe is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Lafayette College and the director of ZeuxisVR: Immersive Art History. He specializes in Italian Renaissance art, with a focus on the intersections of art, optical science, and theology in early modern Italy. This research has been published in Predella, Source: Notes in the History of Art, and Artibus et Historiae. Through ZeuxisVR, Hupe leads a digital initiative that creates virtual reality environments of cultural sites and develops open educational resources, enhancing art history pedagogy by making cultural heritage accessible to a broader audience.

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MUD Foundation Giulio Romano’s Sala dei Giganti in Verse, featuring a dramatic mythological fresco ceiling with numerous human figures and gods surrounded by clouds, creating a swirling vortex effect within a grand architectural space.
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Giulio Romano, Sala dei Giganti

Giulio Romano, Sala dei Giganti, 1532-1534, Palazzo Te, Mantua This immersive fresco cycle depicts the mythological fall of the Giants. Its dynamic and theatrical design transforms the room into a dramatic narrative space.

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MUD Foundation Giulio Romano’s Sala di Psiche in Verse, featuring a Renaissance-style interior covered in intricate frescoes depicting mythological and classical scenes, human figures, and decorative motifs.
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Romano, Sala di Psiche

Giulio Romano, Sala di Psiche, 1527-1528, Palazzo Te, Mantua This fresco cycle, commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, illustrates the myth of Psyche from Apuleius’s Metamorphoses. Romano’s dynamic compositions and sensual details celebrate love, desire, and divine union in a richly ornamented setting.

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MUD Foundation Sant Apollinare Nuovo in Verse, featuring the interior of a historic church with tall arched columns, Byzantine mosaic artwork depicting figures along the upper walls, and a decorated wooden ceiling with square panels.
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Sant Apollinare Nuovo

Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, c. 493-526 Originally built under Theodoric the Great, this basilica features stunning Byzantine mosaics, including processions of saints and depictions of Christ’s life, showcasing the transition from Ostrogothic to Byzantine art and religious influence in Ravenna.

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MUD Foundation Ghirlandaio, Last Supper in Verse, featuring a historic Renaissance room with vaulted ceilings, wooden benches, terracotta flooring, and ceramic religious reliefs decorating the walls.
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Ghirlandaio, Last Supper

Refectory, San Marco, Florence, c. 1486, Last Supper Domenico Ghirlandaio painted this fresco in the Dominican convent’s refectory. It presents The Last Supper with vivid naturalism and refined details.

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MUD Foundation Michelozzo’s San Marco Library in Verse, featuring a historic Renaissance interior with a terracotta floor, white vaulted ceiling, central stone columns supporting arches, wooden double doors, and illuminated display cases.
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Michelozzo, San Marco Library

Library at San Marco, Florence, c. 1444-1450 Designed by Michelozzo under the patronage of Cosimo de’ Medici, this elegant Renaissance library integrates classical proportions with functional design. It housed the Dominican convent’s manuscripts, reflecting the Medici's commitment to scholarship and religious study.

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MUD Foundation Giulio Romano’s Bedroom of Agostino Chigi in Verse, featuring richly detailed Renaissance frescoes depicting classical figures, cherubs, and architectural elements, framed by elaborate painted borders and a decorated gold-trimmed ceiling.
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Bedroom of Agostino Chigi

Agostino Chigi Bedroom, Villa Farnesina, Rome, c. 1510 This private space in the Villa Farnesina, decorated under Agostino Chigi's patronage, features mythological frescoes, including The Marriage of Alexander and Roxana by Sodoma, celebrating themes of love, luxury, and classical antiquity.

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MUD Foundation Taddeo Gaddi’s Baroncelli Chapel in Verse, featuring an ornate chapel interior with frescoes covering the walls and ceiling, a stained-glass window, and a decorated altar before a stone pedestal.
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Taddeo Gaddi, Baroncelli Chapel

Baroncelli Chapel, c. 1328-1338, Santa Croce, Florence Painted by Taddeo Gaddi, the Baroncelli Chapel’s frescoes depict the Life of the Virgin, a key example of early Florentine Gothic art with intricate storytelling and luminous color.

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MUD Foundation Andrea Mantegna’s Camera Picta in Verse, featuring an ornate Renaissance room with frescoes depicting historical figures gathered around a throne, decorative patterns, window openings, and a central stone fireplace.
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Mantegna, Camera Picta

Andrea Mantegna, Camera Picta (Camera degli Sposi), 1465-1474, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua This groundbreaking fresco cycle creates an illusionistic space, with playful perspectives and a famous oculus ceiling, celebrating the Gonzaga family.

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MUD Foundation Piero della Francesca’s Bacci Chapel in Verse, featuring a Renaissance chapel interior with a tall arched window and colorful frescoes depicting people, horses, and various biblical and historical scenes.
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Piero della Francesca, Bacci Chapel

Piero della Francesca, Bacci Chapel, 1452-1466, San Francesco, Arezzo This fresco cycle narrates the Legend of the True Cross, showcasing Piero’s mastery of light, perspective, and monumental composition in sacred storytelling.

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MUD Foundation Benozzo Gozzoli’s Magi Chapel in Verse, featuring elaborate Renaissance frescoes depicting a procession of people and horses in richly detailed landscapes and architectural settings, above carved wooden paneling and benches.
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Benozzo Gozzoli, Magi Chapel

Benozzo Gozzoli, Magi Chapel, 1459-1461, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence A vibrant procession of the Magi winds through this private chapel, blending religious themes with Medici family portraiture and opulent landscapes.

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MUD Foundation Michelangelo’s New Sacristy in Verse, featuring a large white marble tomb with reclining male and female sculptures set within an ornate architectural niche, flanked by tall pilasters and wooden doors.
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Michelangelo, New Sacristy

Michelangelo, New Sacristy (Medici Chapels), 1520-1534, Florence Commissioned by Pope Clement VII, this funerary chapel features Michelangelo’s iconic sculptures like Night and Day, harmonizing architecture and sculpture to honor the Medici family.

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MUD Foundation Filippo Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel in Verse, featuring a Renaissance chapel interior with a tall stained-glass window depicting a religious figure, flanked by candle holders and a partially visible wooden door.
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Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel

Pazzi Chapel, 1430-1460, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, this centrally planned chapter house embodies the principles of Renaissance architecture with its harmonious proportions and restrained elegance.

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