AAH Italian Rennaisance Exam 3

Villa Farnesina

Baldassare Peruzzi

1509

Comissioned by Agostino Chigi, banker for pope

Rome

Galatea

Raffaello Sanzio

Rome

Fresco

in Villa Farnesina

Roman version of the birth of venus

Palazzo Farnese

Antonio da Sangallo

1513

Rome

Michelangelo took over - kneeling scrolls, oversize attic

now houses french embassy - fleur de lis is a symbol shared by farnese and french

Loves of the Gods

Annibale Carracci

fresco-covered ceiling

marraige of bacchus and ariadne

Palazzo Farnese

1607

Palazzo Massimo alla Colonne

Baldassare Peruzzi

1532

flipped house of Raphael motif - rusticated top & ornamented bottom

used to house Cornell Rome program

curved facade, really cool

Madonna of the Long Neck

Parmigianino = little painter from parma

Mannerist, stretched human forms

why her neck long

Agony in the Garden

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopolous)

1590

Mannerist

Mystic - departure from reason - counterreformation

Villa Giulia

Giacomo da Vignola

Summer home of Pope Julius III

Home of the Etruscan Museum

Rome

Sant’Andrea in Via Flaminia

Giacomo da Vignola

1552

Dedicated to st andrew

oval drum

Rome

Villa Farnese at Caprarola

1559

Peruzzi, Da Sangallo, Vignola

Capra means goat

Pentagon & circle

Sala di Fasti Farnesiani

Federico Zuccaro

1557

in Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Glories of the Farnese family - escorting Holy Roman Emperor to Rome

Il Gesu

Giacomo da Vignola

1564

Travertine Facade

Il Gesu means Jesus

Facade design

Palazzo Zuccari

Federico Zuccari

1600

Rome

Animorphic portal

Santa Susanna Facade

Carlo Moderno

1608

Susanna, Christian martyr assaulted by elders in Bible

Travertine Facade

Rome

St Peter’s Facade

Carlo Moderno

1608

Statue of Jesus + 11 disclipes on top - Peter is in the Cathedral.

Style is all michelangelo

Rome

Basilica Palladiana

1546

Vicenza

first important work of Palladio

City hall

Palazzo Chiericati

Facade similar to ancient Greek stoa in the Agora

Vicenza

Palladio

across from Teatro Olimpico

Palazzo Porto

Vicenza

Copy of Palazzo Vidoni-Caffarelli (Raphaello)

Palladio

1552

Palazzo Thiene

Palladio

1556

Worked on it with Giulio Romano

Vicenza

Mannerist

Palazzo Valmarana

1565

Palladio

Bombed in WW2

Vicenza

Villa Almerico-Capra (Villa Rotunda)

Palladio

Built for humanist Paolo Almerico

Called villa rotunda because of its central drum

4 greek temple facades w 4 different views pointing to the 4 cardinal directions

Teatro Olimpico

Only accurate recreation of Greek theater

still active today

a woman yelled at John Hendrix here

Vicenza

Villa Godi

1542

Recessed loggia

Veneto

agricultural villa

Palladio

Villa Poiana

based on a Roman bathhouse

palladian window

Palladio

Veneto

Villa Foscari

Called “la malcontenta” because of jailed sister

Villa on axis with the garden

Palladio

Veneto

Villa Barbaro

If John Hendrix could live anywhere, it would be here?

Palladio

Veneto

2 agricultural wings

Trompe l’oeil frescoes by Paolo Veronese

Villa Emo

Palladio

Treviso

in-antis - projecting side walls

ramp entrance!

San Francesco della Vigna

Palladio

Venice

Site of old vineyard

Istrian stone facade

preexisting medieval basilica given new facade

San Giorgio Maggiore

Hungover on gondola w sunrise, good experience

Medieval basilica, palladio added facade

Saint George the Dragon Slayer!

Pilgrimmage church

Il Redentore

palladio

venice

the redeemer

pilgrimmage church, bridge built every summer

Boy with a Basket of Fruit

Caravaggio

Rome

Oil painting

Camera obscura - tableaux vivant

Drunk Bacchus

Boy Bitten by a Lizard

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Judith beheading holofernes

The calling of st matthew

Supper at Emmaus