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Paperback Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese Book

ISBN: 0892365390

ISBN13: 9780892365395

Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese

In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created...

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