Portrait of Columbus, Sala del Mappamondo, Villa

Portrait of Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506, Italian explorer, with trompe l'oeil decoration of garlands and putti blowing trumpets, fresco in the Hall of Maps, 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 Hall of Maps is also known as the Room of the World Map or Sala del Mappamondo and displays maps of the whole known world as well as of the heavens, in a ceiling fresco of the planets and constellations. 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 Barozzi Caprarola Colomb Columbus Compass Cristobal Farnese Giacomo Lazio Mannerism Mannerist Mappamondo Museale Putti Sala Trompe Vignola Viterbo

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