2-750-485 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Decoration in the Villa Madama, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About 1520...Ceiling-painting in the hall of the Villa Madama...(on the Monte Mario, near Rome)...[The villa was] commenced in 1516 under the Cardinal Giulio de' Medici. The hall was painted by Giovanni da Udine about 1520. Part of the designs by Giulio Romano (1499-1546). Most of the scenes are based on late antique authors (Philostratus)'. After a water-colour by Bonk (c1845). Plate LXXXV, fig 175, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]