Villa Farnesina
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The Villa Farnesina is a beautiful Renaissance building near the entrance to Trastevere. Across the river from central Rome and its namesake family's main residence (the Palazzo Farnese), the contemporary museum and gallery provide an excellent opportunity to envision architecture, art, and landscapes in early modern Rome.
Although it the bears the name of the Farnese family (who bought the estate in 1577), it was commissioned by nouveau-riche Sienese banker Agostini Chigi as a testament to his own wealth, importance, and artistic patronage. He employed a young Baldassere Perruzi to design the building, and brought in a impressive team of master painters, including Raphael, Sodoma, del Piombo, and Bazzi (as well as Perruzi) to create elaborate fresco cycles. In its early days (constructed from approximately 1506 to 1511, with various fresco cycles completed later), the villa hosted many of Chigi's ostentatious, Gatsby-esque banquets. At one of these events, Chigi and his group of close, well-educated friends horrified his guests by instructing his servants to throw his guests' soiled silver and gold plates into the Tiber River -- but the dishes were not wasted, for Chigi had planted a net along the banks in preparation for this trick.
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"Villa Farnesina." Reference document from the Villa Farnesina. Date of production unknown. Received May 16, 2015. http://www.romasegreta.it/trastevere/via-della-lungara.html
Grau, Oliver. "Into the Belly of the Image: Historical Aspects of Virtual Reality. " Leonardo, Vol. 32, No. 5, Seventh New York Digital Salon (1999): 365-371.
Jones, Mark Wilson. "Palazzo Massimo and Baldassare Peruzzi's Approach to Architectural Design." Architectural History, Vol. 31 (1988): 59-106.
Quinlan-McGrath, Mary. "A Proposal for the Foundation Date of the Villa Farnesina." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 49 (1986): 245-250.
Quinlan-McGrath, Mary. "The Villa Farnesina, Time-Telling Conventions and Renaissance Astrological Practice." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 58 (1995): 52-71.
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The Villa Farnesina is a beautiful Renaissance building near the entrance to Trastevere. Across the river from central Rome and its namesake family's main residence (the Palazzo Farnese), the contemporary museum and gallery provide an excellent opportunity to envision architecture, art, and landscapes in early modern Rome.
Although it the bears the name of the Farnese family (who bought the estate in 1577), it was commissioned by nouveau-riche Sienese banker Agostini Chigi as a testament to his own wealth, importance, and artistic patronage. He employed a young Baldassere Perruzi to design the building, and brought in a impressive team of master painters, including Raphael, Sodoma, del Piombo, and Bazzi (as well as Perruzi) to create elaborate fresco cycles. In its early days (constructed from approximately 1506 to 1511, with various fresco cycles completed later), the villa hosted many of Chigi's ostentatious, Gatsby-esque banquets. At one of these events, Chigi and his group of close, well-educated friends horrified his guests by instructing his servants to throw his guests' soiled silver and gold plates into the Tiber River -- but the dishes were not wasted, for Chigi had planted a net along the banks in preparation for this trick.
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Anna Guasco (2016)Coverage
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"Villa Farnesina." Reference document from the Villa Farnesina. Date of production unknown. Received May 16, 2015. http://www.romasegreta.it/trastevere/via-della-lungara.html
Grau, Oliver. "Into the Belly of the Image: Historical Aspects of Virtual Reality. " Leonardo, Vol. 32, No. 5, Seventh New York Digital Salon (1999): 365-371.
Jones, Mark Wilson. "Palazzo Massimo and Baldassare Peruzzi's Approach to Architectural Design." Architectural History, Vol. 31 (1988): 59-106.
Quinlan-McGrath, Mary. "A Proposal for the Foundation Date of the Villa Farnesina." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 49 (1986): 245-250.
Quinlan-McGrath, Mary. "The Villa Farnesina, Time-Telling Conventions and Renaissance Astrological Practice." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 58 (1995): 52-71.