. 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. THE VILLA MAD A MA, NEAR ROME. 59 of Parma. Through this marriage the Villa passed into theFarnese family, and thence into the possession of the Kingsof Naples by the marriage of Elisabetta Farnese with PhilipV. of Spain in 1714. Ferdinand de Bourbon, the ex-King ofNaples, is its present possessor. In the year 1527, during the Pontificate of Clement VII.,the Villa was injured by fire during the sack of Rome by th
. 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. THE VILLA MAD A MA, NEAR ROME. 59 of Parma. Through this marriage the Villa passed into theFarnese family, and thence into the possession of the Kingsof Naples by the marriage of Elisabetta Farnese with PhilipV. of Spain in 1714. Ferdinand de Bourbon, the ex-King ofNaples, is its present possessor. In the year 1527, during the Pontificate of Clement VII.,the Villa was injured by fire during the sack of Rome by theConstable de Bourbon, but the fire does not seem to haveattacked the main block, the internal decorations of which are. View of the Villa from the unfinished circular Cortile. still well preserved. The restoration of the Villa wasentrusted by the Pope to Antonio da Sangallo, who repairedthe damage done by the fire, leaving it in all essential pointsin its former condition. Some doubt, however, exists as tothe authorship of the original designs. Antonio da Sangalloand his brother Battista (called II Gobbo), who worked underRaphael while the designs were in progress, have left variousdrawings which are now at Florence in the Uffizi Gallery(see plan). From the great difference between some of theseand the actual building, it is plain that they were made 6o THE VILLA MADAMA, NEAR ROME. before the work was begun, and from the fact that a plan ofa portion of the Villa by Raphaels own hand is still inexistence, it is possible that the design of the whole isattributable to him. Raphael is distinctly named as thedesigner of the Villa by Serlio ; and we have further evidencein a letter from Count Baldassare Cast
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