Terza volta - Storie di Noè

This ceiling decoration features four rectangular narrative panels arranged around a central square containing a winged figure against a blue and green background. The scenes illustrate the labor of building the massive wooden vessel, the struggle of figures during the deluge, and the eventual restoration of order through religious ritual. The entire composition is set within a fictive architectural framework that looks out onto a vibrant blue sky.

Renaissance thinkers like Francesco Giorgi viewed Noah’s Ark as a 'microcosmos,' where its biblical dimensions (300, 50, and 30 cubits) reflected the ideal proportions of the human body and the harmony of the universe. In the context of the Vatican Loggia, these scenes represent the preservation of life and divine knowledge through a period of total dissolution or 'solutio.'