Ceiling fresco, Room of the Woolmakers, Villa
Central panel of the ceiling fresco depicting Minerva teaching mankind to wear clothes, from the Room of the woolmakers, in the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13435788
Media ID
45113576
Size
4744px x 4688px
(7.8MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
