Casa Farnese

Michelangelo, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Titian, Vignola, the Zuccaris and the Carraccis: these are just some of the great artists who contributed to the Farnese residences in Caprarola, Rome, Parma and Piacenza, which in the eyes of scholars represent cases of successful collaboration between artists who sometimes differed from each other, but whose results achieved a harmonious synthesis. An introduction on the history of the Farnese family, edited by Ingeborg Walter and Roberto Zapperi, is followed by four sections devoted to the four buildings covered in this study, accompanied by photographs of the architectural, sculptural and pictorial elements of each.