Villa Farnese
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 | Villa Farnese |
| Designer | Giacomo Vignola |
| Location | Caprarola, near Viterbo |
| Date | 1560 |
| Building Type | large house, country villa - a renaissance castle |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | rural, town edge |
| Architectural Style | Italian Renaissance |
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| Notes | Pentagonal plan with curving inner facades around a circular courtyard on the inside, and a moat around the outside. Elaborate multi-stage entry sequence. Famous circular staircase. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Villa_Farnese.html |
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"Villa Farnese, Caprarola, (is) based on a regular polygon. Austere at the level of the 'podium' on which the building rests, the façades become lighter in the upper storeys, particularly in the circular courtyard with its alternate rhythms of pairs of engaged columns and semi-circular bays."
—Henri Stierlin. Comprende l'Architecture universelle. p191.
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Robert Adam. Classical Architecture. London: Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82613-8. NA260.A26. axonometric drawing, fig e, p287. Derek Brentnall.
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. plan, section, perspective, and detail drawings, p832. discussion, p833.— The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
A. Rosengarten. A Handbook of Architectural Styles. London: Chatto and Windus, 1910. NA200.R7 1910. elevation drawing of entry facade, f559, p399.
Alene Stickles, University of Oregon. Slides from photographer's collection, July 1993. PCD.3189.1011.1916.049. PCD.3189.1011.1916.048. Fresco detail, Summer Dining Hall, PCD.3189.1011.1916.047. Map Room, PCD.3189.1011.1916.046. Summer Dining Hall, PCD.3189.1011.1916.045. PCD.3189.1011.1916.044. PCD.3189.1011.1916.043. View from Summer Dining Hall over entry, PCD.3189.1011.1916.042. Facade, PCD.3189.1011.1916.041.
Henri Stierlin. Comprendre L'Architecture Universelle. Paris: Office du Livre S.A. Fribourg (suisse), 1977. longitudinal section drawing, p191. upper storey plan drawing, p191. ground plan drawing, p190-1. site plan drawing, p190. discussion, p191.
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