La pentagonale Villa Farnese a Caprarole, vicino Roma. Una delle più sontuose tra le ville extraurbane costruite in epoca rinascimentale dalla nobiltà romana.
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di Socmel_
La pentagonale Villa Farnese a Caprarole, vicino Roma. Una delle più sontuose tra le ville extraurbane costruite in epoca rinascimentale dalla nobiltà romana.
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di Socmel_
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The villa Farnese was built in Caprarola, some 50 km north of Rome as an extra urban mansion for the powerful Farnese family, one of the historical houses of the Roman nobility
The unusual pentagonal plan of the mansion betrays its initial purpose as a fortress, built as it was in the family domains of the House of Farnese.
Plans to build the fortress were abandoned and the foundations were used to turn it into a grand villa during the mid 1500s, when the House of Farnese was at its most powerful, thanks to the election of Pope Paul III and the creation of the duchy of Parma and Piacenza for its natural child Ottavio, sanctioned by the emperor Charles V.
The Renaissance architect Giacomo da Vignola turned it into one of the most exquisite of the extra urban villas that surround Rome, designing a seminal Italian style Renaissance garden and several of its features such as the imposing Royal Escalade.
The interior features large cycles of frescos in the late Renaissance style (aka Mannerism) celebrating the glories of the House of Farnese and their role as peace breakers between the Emperor Charles V and its arch rival Francois I of France.
Pretty sure someone in the US military looked at an overflight picture probably made by the Brits and immediately said: ‘We need one of those too!’
This is really beautiful.
Italians really do not have an equal when it comes to architecture and especially ornamentation if you ask me. It almost has other worldly qualities.
Man I really have to go and visit Italy! What a beauty. 😍