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Making a Prince's Museum - Drawings for the Late- Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Making a Prince's Museum - Drawings for the Late- Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)
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In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio
Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa
Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the
principal building at the villa, which had always been a
semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's
outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with
vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces,
Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese
family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly
born heir.
In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program
as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal
Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa
Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's
collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's
pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely
collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a
catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for
the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's
discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the
Villa's other antiquities museum.
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