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):

Loren Partridge's, “Vignola and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola-Part I.”

David Coffin's, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome

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."

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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