Villa Farnesina
Villa Farnesina | |
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General information | |
Town or city | Rome, Trastevere |
Country | Italy |
Coordinates | 41°53′37″N 12°28′03″E / 41.893611°N 12.4675°E |
Construction started | 1506 |
Completed | 1510 |
Client | Agostino Chigi |
The Villa Farnesina is a
Now owned by the Italian state, the principal rooms can be visited.
Description
The villa was built for
Chigi also commissioned the
At first floor level, Peruzzi painted the main salone with trompe-l'œil frescoes of a grand open loggia with an illusory city and countryside view beyond. The perspective of the painted balcony and colonnade is very accurate from a fixed point in the room.[3] In the adjoining bedroom, Sodoma painted scenes from the life of Alexander the Great, the marriage of Alexander and Roxana, and Alexander receiving the family of Darius.
The villa became the property of the
Later the villa belonged to the Bourbons of Naples and in 1861 to the Spanish Ambassador in Rome, Bermudez de Castro, Duke of Ripalta. Today, owned by the Italian State, it accommodates the Accademia dei Lincei, a long-standing and renowned Roman academy of sciences. Until 2007 it also housed the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (Department of Drawings and Prints) of the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma.
The Villa Farnesina is the subject of a scholarly monograph in German and two luxuriously illustrated volumes in Italian, by Christoph Luitpold Frommel (1961, 2003, 2017). A team led by the architect Cesare Cundari published an important volume of plans and 3D models in 2017. The most comprehensive study is The Villa Farnesina: Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome by James Grantham Turner (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which won the PROSE Award for best art history title from the American Association of Publishers, 2023.[4]
The main rooms of the villa, including the Loggia, are open to visitors.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Coffin David, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome, Princeton University Press 1979, p. 91
- S2CID 195037552.
- ^ Decker, Heinrich (1969) [1967]. The Renaissance in Italy: Architecture • Sculpture • Frescoes. New York: The Viking Press. p. 286.
- ^ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/11/02/a-great-glory-to-wealth-the-villa-farnesina/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/villa-farnesina/575949194DC056075CE84A5728AD9BDC https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-villa-farnesia-james-grantham-turner-book-review-keith-miller/
- ^ [1] Archived June 22, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- Murray, Peter (1963). The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Schocken Books. pp. 151–153.
External links
Images
- Loggia di Psiche by Raphael
- Street Facade and Frescoes
- Garden Facade
- Architecture
- Satellite photo — The bracket-shaped building southwest (lower) of the Tiber, in the centre of photo, is the Villa Farnesina. The Palazzo Farnese is the massive almost square, courtyarded structure to the North of the Tiber.
- Virtual tour of Villa Farnesina on romainteractive.com
Media related to Villa Farnesina (Rome) at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by Palazzo Zuccari, Rome |
Landmarks of Rome Villa Farnesina |
Succeeded by Villa Giulia |