Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Farnesina

Opulent villa of the Chigi family, around 1500,  he a Sienese banker with branches in London and Cairo. The decoration done by Raffaello and others.  No Christian motifs in evidence - only mythology and a rendering of the marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Farnesina





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