Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington (1901)
Victoria and Albert Museum · London : Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 107
) 58 THE VILLA MADAM A, NEAR ROME. Pope Leo X., who had received a cardinals hat in the year1513, began the construction of the Villa, or at least thepreparation of the site. The work was practically completedin the year 1521, at least as far as the building ever wasfinished, the external… … - — ^o-/^ The Villa Madama from the Fresco of the Defeatof Maxentius, by Giulio Romano. the painters work. In 1523 Cardinal Giulio was raised tothe Papal Throne as Clement VII.; some time later heappears to have given the house to the Chapter of St.Eustorgio, from whom it was bought by the lady…
Architecture · Mural painting and decoration
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