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Photo, looking up grand stair toward the villa

Giacomo Vignola
M(b. 1507; d. 1573)

Also known as Giacomo Barozzio, Giacomo Vignola worked around Italy, especially in Rome, and with Michelangelo.

Works

Villa Farnese, at Caprarola, near Viterbo, Italy, 1560.

Villa Farnese

Location Caprarola, near Viterbo, Italy
Date 1560
Building Type large house, country villa - a renaissance castle
Construction System bearing masonry
Climate mediterranean
Context rural, town edge
Style Italian Renaissance
Notes Pentagonal plan with curving inner facades around a circular courtyard on the inside, and a moat around the outside. Elaborate multi-stage entry sequence. Famous circular staircase.

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