Making a Prince′s Museum – Drawings for the Late– Eighteenth–Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese
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- ISBN 9780892365395
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 180 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2000
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A discussion of the designs by Antonio Asprucci for the redecoration of the Borghese Palace as a semi-public museum. The author shows that the new designs not only created a unified space for the Count's extensive collection of Greek and Roman antique and "modern" sculpture, they also presented a set of scenes for the edification of the Borghese prince. She also asserts that the redecorated villa was a turning point in the transition from a space for privately held collections to the modern public museum. A second essay by Alberta Campitelli discusses the sketches for another antiquities museum at the villa.
Carole Paul is a lecturer in the history of art and architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Alberta Campinelli is director of the Unita Organizzativa di Ville e Parchi Storici, Sopraintendenza Beni Culturali, Comune di Roma.
