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	Villa Farnese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Villa Farnese was commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese a grandson of Pope Paul III who was known for advancing the ambitions of his relations.
		Farnese was a courteous man of letters, however the Farnese family as a whole became unpopular with the following pope, Julius III.
		The frescoes portray the exploits of such worthies as Alexander the Great, Hercules and of course the Farnese family themselves: in the 'Hall of the Farnese Annals' decorated by the Zuccaro brothers, the Farnese are depicted at all their most glorious moments, from floor to coffered ceiling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villa_Farnese (961 words)

	MICHELANGELO - LoveToKnow Article on MICHELANGELO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Moses, originally intended for one of the angles of the upper course, is now placed at the level of the eye; in the centre of the principal face of the monument as it was at last finished, on a deplorably reduced and altered scale, by Michelangelo and his assistants in his old age.
		Presently he found himself so impeded and enraged by the mechanical difficulties of raising and transporting the marbles, and by the disloyalty and incompetence of those with whom he had to deal, that he was fain to throw up the commission altogether.
		Another masterly sketch in marble; the seated lad stoops forward between his parted knees, having both hands occupied with his left foot; the figure blocked out of the marble, with the least possible sacrifice of the material; the subject and motive enigmatical.
	83.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MICHELANGELO.htm (10552 words)

	Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Farnese Atlas is the oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, possibly based upon the star catalog of Hipparchus
		The Farnese Bull is another of the famous Farnese Marbles.
		The Farnese Cup is the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent" ; it is a bowl made of sardonyx agate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_Napoli (244 words)

	Encyclopedia: Villa Farnese
		It should not be confused with the Palazzo Farnese, Rome A mid-18th century engraving of Palazzo Farnese by Giuseppe Vasi Palazzo Farnese, Rome (housing the French Embassy), is the most imposing Italian palace of the sixteenth century (Sir Banister Fletcher) (1).
		In a detail of Brueghels Land of Cockaigne (1567) a soft-boiled egg has little feet to rush to the luxuriating peasant who catches drops of honey on his tongue, while roast pigs roam wild: the 16th century was a good time for European peasants A peasant, from 15th...
		Alessandro Farnese can refer to: Alessandro Farnese (pope) (1468–1549) - better known as Pope Paul III Alessandro Farnese (cardinal) (1520–1589) - Pauls Grandson Alessandro Farnese (duke) (1545–1592) - Pauls Great Grandson This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Villa-Farnese (2721 words)

	Villa Farnese -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Farnese was a courteous man of letters, however the (Click link for more info and facts about Farnese) Farnese family as a whole became unpopular with the following pope, (Click link for more info and facts about Julius III) Julius III.
		Alessandro Farnese decided it would be politic to retire from (Click link for more info and facts about The Vatican) The Vatican for a period.
		Outside, the Villa Farnese is approached by steps from the (A settlement smaller than a town) village (A public square with room for pedestrians) Piazza.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vi/Villa_Farnese.htm (1146 words)

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		The Gesù was built with the financial assistance of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the richest art patron of his day and the nephew of Paul III, the pope who approved the Society of Jesus (figure 3).
		Farnese ended up lavishing 100,000 scudi on the project, an inconceivable fortune at the time, and hired the architects Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta to design the building.
		But suddenly work stopped with Farnese's death in 1589, and the entire ceiling had to wait almost a century before it could be painted, between 1672 and 1685, by the Baroque artist Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio).
	www.companysj.com /v183/gesu.htm (1806 words)

	Palazzo Farnese H15a
		A big part of the travertine for the construction of the palace was brought directly from Tivoli; the marbles were taken from the Baths of Caracalla, ruins of Ostia and a Tempio di Serapide (in the garden of Palazzo Colonna al Quirinale).
		Construction was began in 1515 by Alessandro Farnese (future pope Paul III) and finished in 1589 by a second cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
		As a consequence of extinction of the Farnese dynasty into the Bourbons and access of Carlo di Borbone (1716-1788) to the throne of Naples (Carlo VII 1734-1759), Palazzo Farnese followed the destiny of the Neapolitan family starting from the 18th century.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/H15a.htm (406 words)

	The Italy Travel Guide Accommodation, and Places to Visit
		The addition of the massive cornice, decorated with the Farnese lilies would be decisive - according to the plan presented in the spring of 1547, bitterly criticised by the followers of Sangallo - after the suitable corrections made adding to the façade, which a recent restoration has returned it to its ancient glory.
		In the courtyard, the influence of Michelangelo, who was replaced after the death of the pontiff by Vignola, can be seen in the refined frieze with garlands which completes the main floor and in the personal interpretation of the classic language of the upper floor, lined with Corinthian columns.
		Farnese Palace Cardinal Alessandro Farnese had planned to erect the fmily palace, given to Antionio da Sangallo the Younger since 1513, on land acquired in 1495.
	www.ciaodarling.com /italy/lazio/farnese.htm (589 words)

	Litos - Ancient Greek Marbles - some still used today (II)
		It was used for the construction of the temple of Olympius Zeus, the tomb of Darius in Persepolis (Persia-Iran), and the sculpture "Belvedere" that adorns the Museum of Vatican.
		This marble was called "marmor taenarium" by the Romans, because it was quarried near the cape of Tainaro of south Peloponnese.
		This marble was known as "marmor rhodium" because it was quarried in Rhodes Island (South-East Aegean Sea, near the Turkish coast).
	www.litosonline.com /articles/62/ar6201e.shtml (1504 words)

	LacusCurtius • Rodolfo Lanciani — Pagan and Christian Rome — Chapter 5
		Excited by a discovery the capital importance of which he was able to foresee at once, he asked an audience of the Pope, Pius IX., and begged him to purchase the Vigna Molinari, and grant the funds necessary to discover the crypt to which this fragment of a tombstone belonged.
		Whenever one of his was approaching the end of life, the bones of Sylvester would stir in their vault, and the marble lid would be moistened with drops of water, as stated in the epitaph, which is still visible in S. John Lateran, against one of the pillars of the first right aisle.
		The two world-renowned marble lions crouch upon the steps, watching the sarcophagus; Religion stands on the left, holding a cross in the right hand; while the Genius of Death, with an inverted torch, is seen reclining on the opposite side.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/.Texts/Lanciani/LANPAC/5*.html (10457 words)

	Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Parma
		On the other hand, the Veleian sculptures -the twelve marble statues of the Julius-Claudian cycle from the Basilica -and their respective inscriptions were assigned to the Gallery which had been recently established in the Accademia.
		Marble statues of the Julius-Claudian cycle from the Basilica of Veleia
		Meanwhile, it housed sculptures from the Palatino, which had been part of the Farnese collections, and other sculptures coming from Rome which before were to be found among the antiques belonging to the Gonzaga family of Guastalla.
	www.archeobo.arti.beniculturali.it /Parma/note_en.htm (778 words)

	A Micromosaic Vase :: Exceptional Continental Antique Objet D'art at Mallett Antiques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The upper section is inlaid with marble and the lower is of porphyry.
		Other commissions were received from the King of the Two Sicilies for his museum at the Palazzo Farnese, Rome; the Baron of Montmorency, the Baron Demidoff, Santi Tardini, director of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and the Duchess of Bracciano, resident in Albano.
		These mosaics are very similar in feel to those decorating a pair of marble consoles in the collection at the Hermitage in St Petersburg; the tops are decorated with semi-precious stones with three mosaics decorating the middle of each.
	www.mallettantiques.com /featured_item/pietra.htm (927 words)

	Farnese Theatre
		The Farnese Theatre is the most ancient and largest baroque theatre existing inside a building.
		The architect Aleotti, inspired by the classical.age theatres, transformed a huge "hall" which was originally intended as a "salle d'armes" in a theatrical space of great technical complexity, which still fascinates for its warm and golden wood and its wide volumes.
		After the last representation in 1732, the Farnese Theatre slowly deteriorated until the almost total destruction of the wooden parts due to the fragmentation of a bomb, during the Second World War.
	www.ramsete.com /farnese/farnese.htm (402 words)

	Antique marble
		Since the Renaissance, white marble has been a preferred material for carving, and until recently ancient sculpture was often deliberately cleaned with dilute acid or the original painted decoration has been lost through natural processes.
		The widespread use of marble began in the 1st century BCE in Rome, and by the time of Augustus, buildings were going up everywhere in marble.
		In the Metropolitan Museum of New York is the most famous antique marble inlaid table, originally situated in the Farnese's Palace in Rome.The stone and marble work did not undergo many variations fron the ancient times to today, keeping most of the antique tradition in the artistic production and in the specialized craftsmenship.
	www.francoermarmista.com /eng/antique_marble.htm (653 words)

	Monument to Paul III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this form it was placed in the center of the Gregorian Chapel, from where it was transferred to the back of the south-east pier of the Dome; after which, for its final placing by Bernini, it was necessary to reduce the allegorical statues to two.
		Originally the figure was nude, but in 1595 Cardinal Farnese, although he admitted that Justice should keep nothing hidden, had her covered - not quite skillfully enough to disguise the modest alteration - with a blanket of whitened metal; meanwhile old Prudence, severe and dignified, continues to exhibit her melancholy nudity.
		The former, a naked representation of Paul III's seductive sister, Giulia Farnese, was given a metal tunic by Pope Innocent X; the latter, an old hag in the likeness of the pope's mother looking at herself in a glass, was suffered to remain nude down to the navel.
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Monuments/PaulIII/PaulIII.htm (849 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.11.41
		She considers the manpower requirements for terracing, foundations, substructure, central block construction and decoration, marble floors, marble wall veneer, mosaic floors, wall and vault mosaics, wall and vault stuccos.
		Marble is well treated by H. Dodge, "Ancient marble studies: recent research," JRA 4 (1991) 28-50 and J. Fant, "Ideology, gift and trade: a distribution model for the Roman imperial marbles," in The inscribed economy 145-70.
		As of the summer of 1997 the grand sculptures (Farnese collection) from the Baths of Caracalla which are in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples, had been newly cleaned and arranged with splendid descriptions and up-to-date discussion of their placement in their original settings.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-11-41.html (2734 words)

	Roman Architecture Gallery
		It is surmounted by the Villa Farnese, which, with its many gardens and staircases, covers much of the hill, and hence a good deal of the architectural remains of the Roman age.
		The column consists of 19 blocks of marble with a helicoidal band of figures spiraling up it, documenting the Dacian War of Emperor Trajan.On this column we see the bridges Trajan built, the forts he attacked, the camps he destroyed, and the enemy he put to flight.
		There were rooms for cold, hot and warm baths, splendid ceilings, porticoes, pillared halls, gymnasiums, where the rarest marbles, the most colossal columns, and the finest statues were admired by the people; even the baths were of basalt, granite, alabaster.
	www.geocities.com /gorlik/Gallery.html (876 words)

	Farnese Table [Italian (Rome)] (58.57) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marble, alabaster, and semi-precious stones; 37 3/4 x 150 x 66 1/4 in.
		The top of the table is an inlay of various marbles and semi-precious stones.
		The two large "windows" in the center are of oriental alabaster, and the lilies are emblems of the Farnese family.
	www.themetmuseum.com /toah/ho/08/eusts/hod_58.57.htm (111 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		The Villa Farnese was commissioned by Cardinal (Catholicism) Cardinal Alessandro Farnese a grandson of Pope Paul III who was known for advancing the ambitions of his relations.
		The principal staircase or 'Scala Regia' is a graceful spiral of steps supported by pairs of Ionic order Ionic columns rising up through the three floors, frecoed by Antonio Tempesta On the piano nobile are a series of 12 state rooms, are justly famed for their frescoes by the brothers Taddeo Zuccaro and Federigo Zuccaro.
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	Annibale Carracci, cat. 50 - NGA
		Annibale was faithful to the statue, capturing the goatlike muzzle in the protrusion of the nose and upper lip; the broad, flattened nose and slanting nostrils; sloping brow; and the parted lips, thick and sensual.
		The virile curls of the satyr's hair and beard, particularly the coarse tufts of mustache, sprout in masses to evoke the carved marble and are remarkably faithful to the prototype.
		He was surrounded by the Farnese's collection of antiquities, one of the best in the city, and artists had easy access to the Vatican collections.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/car_50.shtm (836 words)

	LacusCurtius • Rodolfo Lanciani — Pagan and Christian Rome — Chapter 2
		The frieze is carved with trophies and panoplies of various kinds; the reliefs of the pediment represent the emperor Antoninus [?] sacrificing a ram and a sow, and although the panels lie scattered around the temple, and the figures are broken, apparently no important piece is missing.
		The columns and marbles of the temple were bought by cardinal Falconieri to build and ornament a chapel in the church of S. Giovanni de' Fiorentini.
		The bronze pillar is probably lost forever, but the marble one is that recovered on the banks of the Tiber, September 20, 1890, the inscription on which I am endeavoring to explain.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/LANPAC/2*.html (12396 words)

	Encyclopedia: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli
		The Farnese Hercules, engraved by Hendrick Goltzius, dated 1617.
		The Farnese Atlas at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy.
		The Farnese Bull is a massive sculpture attributed to the Rhodian artists Apollonius of Tralles and his brother Tauriscus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Museo-Archeologico-Nazionale-Napoli (610 words)

	News : Press Releases: Willem van Tetrode: Bronze Sculptures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His version of the latter is now considered the first reproduction of the paradigmatic antique marble, which helps to date the discovery in Rome of the Medici Venus to shortly before 1559, the year the cabinet was completed.
		Although nothing is known of Tetrode's training in the Netherlands, this early record indicates that he was fully conversant with marble before he turned to the medium of bronze.
		One of his first documented small bronzes, finished in 1559, is a much-reduced reproduction of the giant marble hero at rest.
	www.frick.org /html/Tetroderelease.htm (2104 words)

	FMR Journal Contents
		The cardinal's Olympus; the Carracci at palazzo Farnese.
		The Iron Duke; the armour of Allessandro Farnese (1545-1592).
		Marble paradise; the chapel of San Cataldo in Taranto.
	www.xs4all.nl /~stremen/fmr.html (6206 words)

	St. Peter's Basilica - A Virtual Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Facing it, flanked by two columns in gray Egyptian marble, is the Altar of the Cure of the Cripple, as told in Chapter three of the Acts of the Apostles, by St. Peter together with St. John, at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple in Jerusalem.
		The many colors of this work, rich in precious marble including breccia marble of the seven bases is completed by the gilded stucco of the vault.
		This sepulcher, entirely in white marble, contrasts with Bernini's polychrome creations, also in the linearity of its style and in the smooth refinement of the niche in which it is placed.
	stpetersbasilica.org /Docs/SPB-VirtualTour6.htm (4555 words)

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		The walls of the chapel are all incrusted with gorgeous marbles and precious stones, from malachite, porphyry, lapis-lazuli, chalcedony, agate, to all the finer and more expensive gems which shone in Aaron's ephod.
		In the midst of the action, the young Farnese sprang on board of the enemy, and with his stout broadsword hewed down all who opposed him, opening a path into which his comrades poured one after another; and after a short, but murderous contest, he succeeded in carrying the vessel.
		As Farnese's galley lay just astern of Don John's, the latter could witness the achievement of his nephew, which filled him with an admiration he did not affect to conceal.
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	The British Museum: Factsheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His precocious artistic talent was first revealed in his marble reliefs, the Battle of the Centaurs and the Donatello-inspired Madonna of the Stairs (both Casa Buonarroti, Florence) executed in his late teens, and slightly later in the Bacchus (Bargello, Florence) executed in Rome in 1496.
		Michelangelo's artistic reputation was firmly established by the virtuoso marble Pietà (St Peter's, Rome) completed in 1500 for the tomb of a French Cardinal.
		In 1501 Michelangelo returned to Florence where he remained until 1504, completing the gigantic marble David (Accademia, Florence), the sculpture of the Madonna and Child (Bruges, Notre Dame) and the circular painting of the Holy Family (the 'Doni Tondo', Uffizi, Florence).
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /pd/factsheets/michelangelo.html (1709 words)

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