Identifier: italianwalldecor00vict (find matches)
Title: Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Victoria and Albert Museum
Subjects: Architecture Mural painting and decoration
Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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can. 1500. Decorates a chapel in the Collegiate Church at Spello, finished next year, as dated under the portrait of the painter. 1501. Elected Decemvir of Perugia. 1502. June 29th, contract between Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini and Bernardino (Pinturicchio) for decoration of the libraryin the Cathedral of Siena. 1503. Begins the ceiling of the library early in the year, and completes it in the autumn.In October the Cardinal (now Pius III.) dies, four weeks after his elevation to the Papal Chair.During this year supplies design representing Fortune for the pavement of Siena Cathedral.1507. The decoration of the library at Siena is finished. After this executes series of frescoes in palace of Pandolfo Petrucci at Siena.( Return of Ulysses in National Gallery, London.)1509. Receives final payment for library in January. Signorelli accompanies him from Rome to Siena to standgodfather to his son.1513. Paints small picture of Crucifixion, now at Milan.December nth, dies at Siena, aged 59.
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wm Ornament round the dome. THE VILLA MADAMA, NEAR ROME. The Villa Madama,* in spite of its external decorationnever having been completed, and a considerable part of thedesign not even commenced, and notwithstanding the injurythat it has received from neglect and exposure to weather,is even now one of the finest examples of those wonderfulpalaces which were built during the 16th century by somany of the rich nobles and ecclesiastics of Rome. It ismagnificently situated on the slopes of Monte Mario, abouttwo miles outside the Porta Angelica, near the Vatican.From the terraces of the villa there is a splendid view ofthe Tiber from the Ponte Molle to the Castle of St. Angelo,over the domes and palaces of the northern part of Rome, andover the Campagna around, extending to the Sabine andAlban Hills. Its site on the steep slope of Monte Mariopresents those opportunities for a skilful arrangement ofterraces, gardens, fountains and grottoes, which called forththe best fancies of the Italian

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