The pictorial decoration of Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari and their workshop (unit 1).

The course is dedicated to the study of the Farnese palace and its decoration, examining its genesis, the elaboration of iconographic themes, the events of its conservation and its concrete realisation. The prerequisites for this study will be knowledge of the design and construction history of the building, as well as historical events and Farnese 'cultural policy'. Classroom lessons will be supplemented by visits to the palace.

I. Faldi, Il palazzo Farnese di Caprarola, Torino, Seat, 1981.
P. Portoghesi (a cura di), Caprarola, Roma, Manfredi, 1996.
C. Robertson, Il "gran cardinale". The patronage of Alessandro Farnese, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1992.
G. Vasari, Le vite..., Firenza, Giunti, 1568 e edizioni moderne (Milanesi, Barocchi Bettarini).

Sources and documents for the study of the arts in Tuscia in the 16th century.

The specific course of module 2 aims to offer a detailed overview of the documentary and archival resources functional to the study of artistic production in the area of Tuscia viterbese during the sixteenth century, with particular reference to the cases of the Farnese palace in Caprarola, Palazzo dei Priori in Viterbo and the Sacro Bosco (Sacred Wood) of Bomarzo.

A. Carosi, Note al palazzo comunale di Viterbo, Viterbo 1988

R. Tuttle-B. Adorni (a cura di), Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Milano 2002

S. Frommel (a cura di), Bomarzo- Il Sacro Bosco, Milano 2009