Casa della Farnesina
Casa della Farnesina (also Villa Iulia and Villa under the Farnesina , not to be confused with the Villa Farnesina from the 16th century) is a Roman villa that dates back to around 20 BC. BC on the banks of the Tiber in Rome and possibly served as a residence for Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Iulia .
The villa had to be abandoned soon after construction because it was apparently built too close to the Tiber and a flood filled the building with mud. In 1879 the building was discovered during work on the construction of dams on the banks of the Tiber in the gardens of Villa Farnesina . Four rooms and two corridors could be saved. In all the rooms there was rich wall decoration, which is one of the most important testimonies of urban Roman decor in the early Augustan period.
The wall painting shows - like the Casa di Livia - a hybrid form between the 2nd style and the 3rd style of Roman wall painting . Some of the paintings show a mythological central image on a white background surrounded by red fields. In the foreground, pillars and other architectural elements were applied as pseudo-architecture .
The frescoes were removed after the discovery and are now in Palazzo Massimo .
literature
- Irene Bragantini, Maria Rita Sanzi DiMino: La villa della Farnesina in Palazzo Massimo alle Terme . Electa, Rome 1998, ISBN 88-435-6662-8 .
- Irene Bragantini, Mariette de Vos (ed.): Le decorazioni della villa romana della Farnesina. (Museo Nazionale Romano. II, Le pitture 1) DeLuca, Rome 1982
- Joseph Bayer: Stucco reliefs of a barrel vault from the "Casa Farnesina" in Rome. Introductory meeting. Schallehn & Wollbrück, Vienna 1897
- John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Primus, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89678-397-4 , pp. 30-33
- Stéphanie Wyler: Roman Replications of Greek Art at the Villa della Farnesina. In: Art History Vol. 29 No. 2 (2006), pp. 213-232
