Domenichino and workshop

Domenichino and workshop is the credit a museum gives when the design of a picture is Domenichino's and assistants in his studio did much or all of the painting. The National Gallery in London prints it as Domenichino and assistants, and uses it for a whole room of frescoes.

Between 1616 and 1618 Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, nephew of Pope Clement VIII, had a garden pavilion at his villa in Frascati, outside Rome, decorated with ten scenes from the life of Apollo. Domenichino drew the designs, and many of his preparatory drawings survive in the Royal Collection at Windsor. By then he was busy with other commissions, so the walls were painted largely by his team. The landscape painter Giovanni Battista Viola is recorded working with him on the cycle in 1617.

In the 1840s eight of the frescoes were taken off the walls and moved to a palace in Rome, while two stayed at the villa. The eight have been in the National Gallery since 1958.