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Title: 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
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Victoria and Albert Museum
Subjects: Architecture Mural painting and decoration
Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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have made theItalian villa a distinct creation characteristic of the people andthe age. The history of the Villa can be briefly given. Not laterthan the end of the year 1517-, Giulio de Medici, the cousin of * For further descriptions and drawings of the Villa Madama,see Pontani, Opere architettoniche di Raffadlo Sanzio, Rome, 1845,Geymiiller, Raffadlo Sanzio studiato com& Architetto, Milan, 1884, andT. Hofmann, Raff ad in seiner Bedeuting als Architekt I. VillaMadama zu Rom. (Zittau, 1900.) 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 decorations never having been carriedout. In the year 1521 Cardinal Giulio de Medici rewardedGiovanni da Udine, the designer of the decorations, with acanonry and other benefits as a mark of his appreciation of
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- — ^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 after whomthe Palace is now commonly known as the Villa Madama.This lady was the Princess Margaret of Austria, a naturaldaughter of Charles V., who was first married to Alessandrode Medici, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany, and afterhis death in 1538 became the wife of Ottavio Farnese, Duke

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