Villa Madama, Stuccoes and Paintings

Category

Library Item

Item no

25429

Title

Villa Madama, stuccoes and paintings of the passage and details of the arabesques in the open hall.

Artist / maker

Gruner, Lewis

Date

1854

Size

40.0 x 33.0 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Art and Design Library

'Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches & palaces in Italy' was a work produced in Italy by Lewis Gruner. Lewis Gruner's original name is Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gruner or Ludwig Gruner, and it was on this work where he first used the name Lewis Gruner. Gruner was born in Dresden, Germany on 24th Feb 1801.

Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches & palaces in Italy' takes in many notable buildings of renaissance Italy. The work takes in buildings such as The Vatican, the Cathedral of Siena and there is even a plan of the bathroom of Pope Clemens VII, in the Castle of St Angelo in Rome. The work spans much of Italy, from sites in Rome, Parma, Brescia, Pavia, Milan, Perugia and Cremona. There is one engraving which travels away from Italy to show details of Cathedral of Albi, in France.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Frescoes

Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

Places > Europe > Italy

Religion > Religious facilities > Churches

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