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Sala d’Ercole – Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Italy (1559)

Artist/Designer: Giacomo Barozzi Vignola

Project Location: Italy

Figure 1: Fountain of Hercules ( Source | Accessed : March 30, 2022 | Photographer: Loren W. Partridge )
Figure 2: Perspective View ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Loren W. Partridge )
Figure 3: Fountain of Hercules in Black and White ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Loren W. Partridge )
Figure 4: Vault ceiling in the Room of Hercules ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Loren W. Partridge )
Figure 5: View of Piacenza over doorway to chapel ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Loren W. Partridge )
Figure 6: Plan of interior and allegorical frescoes: Horizontal hatching- Federico Zuccaro, diagonal hatching Jacopo Bertoja ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Loren W. Partridge )
Figure 7: Exterior view of Villa Farnese ( Source | Accessed : February 16, 2022 | Photographer: Livioandronico2013 )

Style/Period(s):
Renaissance

Primary Material(s):
Stone, Brick

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Significant Date(s):
16th Century, 1559

Additional Information:
Also known as "Villa Caprarola"

Room of Hercules is also known as "Sala d'Ercole" in Italian

Publications/Texts in Print:

Coffin, David R. The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979: 281-285.

Partridge, Loren W. “Vignola and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola-Part I.” The Art Bulletin 52, no. 1 (1970): 81–87.

Partridge, Loren W. "The Sala d'Ercole in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, Part I." The Art Bulletin 53, no. 4 (1971): 467-486.

Partridge, Loren W. "The Sala d'Ercole in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, Part II." The Art Bulletin 54, no. 1 (1972): 50-62.

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Building Address: Piazza Farnese, 1, 01032 Caprarola VT, Italy

Patron: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese

Significant Dates: Built in 1559 by Vignola, the Fountain of Hercules was completed between January 14, 1572, and November 23, 1573 by Curzio Maccarone.

Artists: Frescoes attributed to Federico Zuccaro (ca. 1541-1609) and Jacopo Bertoja (ca. 1544- 1574).

Associated Buildings by Vignola: Villa Giulia, Villa Lante, and Chiesa del Gesù.

Associated Projects: Scala Regia- Villa Farnese and Sala del Mappamondo, Villa Farnese

Tags: Renaissance, Villa

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