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Divinity and Dynasty at Caprarola: Perfect History in the Room of Farnese Deeds
This essay is a formal and iconographical analysis of the Room of Farnese Deeds in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola (Figs. 1-3). In the course of the discussion the known documents and drawings will be presented to establish attributions, dates, and authorship of the programme. Heraldry, devices, and allegorical figures are discussed before the historical scenes, because they provide in abstract and compressed form the general framework of ideas within which the histories are viewed. The deeds of the Farnese are examined in the light of the verbal and visual cues offered by the frescoes as well as by other historical evidence. The organization of the scenes and their visual and thematic links to classical antiquity are considered in detail. I have attempted to identify all of the portraits within the scenes and to assess their dynastic and political significance. The article concludes with a discussion of the historiographical context of the frescoes and the relationship between their content and style.
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The Sala d'Ercole in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, Part I
The Sala d'Ercole in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola is the loggia in the front façade on the piano nobile overlooking the town of Caprarola and the countryside of Lazio toward Rome (Fig. 1). It was designed as a belvedere and probably as a place for informal dining.
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The five arched openings, which are now glazed, were originally open and had deep blue canvas shades to regulate the sunlight.
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The Sala d'Ercole in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, Part II
iconography The most superficial level of meaning of the Sala d'Ercole is topographical. The peculiarities of the volcanic crater of the Lago di Vico in the Cimini mountains are explained by a myth recorded by Servius in his commentary on Virgil's Aeneid
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in which Hercules, when asked by the local peasants for a demonstration of his strength, plunged his staff deep into the earth; when the peasants were unable to extract the staff, Hercules, who was often associated in antiquity with the creation of water sources,
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pulled it out himself, thus creating the crater and the flow of water which became the Lago di Vico. So grateful were the peasants for the water that they built a temple to Hercules. The myth is illustrated in the five large scenes in the vault of the Sala d'Erocle.
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