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| | Art Bulletin, The: The Farnese circular courtyard at Caprarola: God, geopolitics, genealogy, and gender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | In 1538 his younger brother Ottavio Farnese (1524-1586) married the natural daughter of the emperor Charles V, Margaret of Austria (1522-1586), the widow of Duke Alessandro de' Medici, assassinated in 1537. |
 | | It was commissioned from Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and his associate, Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536), by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese senior, the future Pope Paul III, in about 1521--the year in which the cardinal bought the rights to Caprarola as a fief from the church. |
 | | Serlio had studied with Peruzzi and Sangallo in Rome in the 1520s and derived many of his palace designs from their projects, including ones with circular courtyards. |
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