Artist/Designer: Giacomo Barozzi Vignola
Project Location: Italy
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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