Fresco, Spring Room, Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Lazio, Italy
Fresco panel of a youth representing Spring, wearing a crown of myrtle, a plant sacred to Venus suggesting Springtime love and the vitality of the seasons, painted 1560-62 by Taddeo Zuccari, 1529-66, and assistants, in the Spring Room, 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
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1559-73 Allegorical Barozzi Caprarola Cornucopia Farnese Fertility Giacomo Lazio Mannerism Mannerist Museale Myrtle Plenty Springtime Taddeo Vignola Vitality Viterbo Zuccari
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