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The Villa Farnesina : palace of Venus in renaissance Rome

Title

The Villa Farnesina : palace of Venus in renaissance Rome / James Grantham Turner.

Author

Turner, James, 1947-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
©2022

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xiv, 501 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonical images to their original context, when each element joined in a productive conversation. He is the first to reconstruct the architect-painter Peruzzi's original, well-proportioned, well-appointed building and to re-visualize his lost fȧade decoration-erotic scenes and mythological figures who make it come alive and soar upward. More comprehensively than any previous scholar, he reintegrates painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, topographical prints and drawings, archaeological discoveries and literature from the brilliant circle around the patron Agostino Chigi, the powerful banker who 'loved all virtuosi' and commissioned his villa-palazzo from the best talents in multiple arts. It can now be understood as a Palace of Venus, celebrating aesthetic, social and erotic pleasure." --

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

NA7595.R6585

ISBN

1316511014
9781316511015
9781009041836 (canceled/invalid)
9781009036351 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

40031374751

OCLC

on1305916045
1305916045
SCSB-14520520

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries