Palazzo del Té (Mantua, Italy) : Court, east façade, entablature, frontal view
- Creator:
- Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546
- Published/Created:
- Mantua, Lombardy, Italy
1525-1535 - Date Depicted:
- 9/12/1997
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Materials:
- stone
- Notes:
- The greatest of all Mannerist villas was called a palace-the Palazzo del Te in Mantua-and, like the Villa Farnesina, it was a villa suburbana, close to the city and commingling aspects of both palace and villa architecture and function. It was built by Giulio Romano for Federigo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and son of Isabelle d'Este, one of the most cultivated and erudite of all Renaissance art patrons... "At work on the Gonzaga villa, and free of the weight of the orthodoxy of both old and new Rome, Giulio's 'manner' took precedence. His strange, chimerical imagination was most dramatically unleashed in his illusionistic fresco paintings for the interior rooms of the Palazzo del Te, but the architecture, too, is filled with complicated and unexpected effects.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 16th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Mannerist
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-RG-PT-H2
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
palazzi (AAT)
villas (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- construction ; fresco painting (technique) buildings; dwellings; houses; town houses; palazzi entablature
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module One
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
9/12/1997 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10110942
- PID:
- digcoll:1831001