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Description: Loggia of Psyche, Villa Farnesina

TitleLoggia of Psyche, Villa Farnesina

Creator nameRaphael

Creator name (description)Painting by Raphael and workshop; architecture by Baldassare Peruzzi

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1518–1519

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

LocationRome

SubjectsMythology, Roman, in artNude in artMural painting and decoration, Renaissance--ItalyDecoration and ornament, Architectural--Italy--RomeArchitecture, Renaissance--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...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.12-54

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100108&redirecttoanchor=80365

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

5. Mythological Nudes and Other Masculine Diversions

Jill Burke

The Italian Renaissance Nude

Ranged around the walls of the Hall of Psyche in the Palazzo Te in Mantua, framing images of frolicking naked gods, goddesses, and nymphs, is an...

Author

Jill Burke

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.159-182

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.6

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Chapter subject tags:Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1500-1540Mythology, Classical, in artNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceRaphael, 1483-1520European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600Villa della FarnesinaPainting, Renaissance--Italy

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

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