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Description: Villa of Agostino Chigi (La Farnesina), Rome, north façade

TitleVilla of Agostino Chigi (La Farnesina), Rome, north façade

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1500–1550

Creation date (description)Early to mid-16th century

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsDark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

Dimensions17 1/8 x 22 7/16 in. (43.5 x 57 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360503

Accession number49.92.53

SubjectsArchitecture, Renaissance--ItalyArchitecture--Designs and plans--16th centuryDecoration and ornament, Architectural--Italy--Rome

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Chapter 1: The High Renaissance

Marcia B. Hall

After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century

Rome had always been a city of transients, living off the pilgrims who swarmed to visit the holy sites, to view the relics, or to obtain indulgences for their sins, especially in Jubilee years. In the year 1300 a contemporary estimated that in the city of about 35,000 inhabitants, two...

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Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.12-54

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100108&redirecttoanchor=39635

Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyRome--HistoryAntiquities, RomanRaphael, 1483-1520Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Papacy--HistoryVasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574Ripanda, Jacopo, active 1490-1530Pintoricchio, approximately 1454-1513Florence--HistoryLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Villa della Farnesina

3. The Early Suburban Villa

David R. Coffin

The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome

The Villa Belvedere, built for Pope Innocent VIII (1484-1492) on the summit of Monte Sant’Egidio north of St. Peter’s and the Vatican Palace (Fig. 39, p. 71), is the earliest building in Rome to present fully all the characteristics of the Renaissance villa. In terms of its function it is, of course, not the first Roman villa, for this...

Author

David R. Coffin

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.63-110

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00163.010

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, Renaissance--ItalyCountry homes--ItalySuburban homes, Renaissance--ItalyAppian Way (Italy)Papacy--History

2. What the Apostles Taught: Domenico Beccafumi’s Chiaroscuro Woodblock Prints

Evelyn Lincoln

The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker

~~In 1593 Andrea Andreani, an itinerant woodblock cutter in Siena, packed up shop and returned to his native Mantua to begin work on a print commission from Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga. The task was...

Author

Evelyn Lincoln

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.45-110

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00148.005

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Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600Prints, Renaissance--ItalyBeccafumi, Domenico, 1486-1551Wood-engraving, Renaissance

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