Making a prince's museum : drawings for the late-eighteenth-century redecoration of the Villa Borghese
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Making a prince's museum : drawings for the late-eighteenth-century redecoration of the Villa Borghese
（Bibliographies & dossiers, 5）
Getty Research Institute, 2000
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Accompanies the exhibition at the Getty Research Institute held June 17-September 17, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-171)
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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.
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