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Palazzo Farnese Description

The effect of the Palazzo Farnese is enhanced by the fact that it can be viewed across an open square. In this palace, the handsomest of all the 16th century Roman palaces, Renaissance architecture, which had begun in Rome with the Palazzo Venezia, reached its magnificent culmination. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, later Pope Paul III (1534-49), commissioned Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in 1514 to build the palace. After Sangallo's death it was continued by Michelangelo (from 1546) and completed by Giacomo della Porta in 1589. The palace later passed into the hands of the Bourbons of Naples, and it is now the French Embassy. The exterior is of majestic effect with its massive structure of ashlar masonry and its restrained articulation,

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Hobbies & Activities category: Castle, chateau, palace; Architecture - Renaissance

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Palazzo Farnese
Piazza Cittadella
I-00186 Rome
Italy

http://www.farnese.net

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