'… to recreate a largely vanished masterpiece of Renaissance architecture, painting and stucco in such detail, with diligent research fleshed out here and there by intelligent speculation and acute insight, is an achievement in itself. The Villa Farnesina is … a model of scholarly practice, lucidly written.' Keith Miller, The Times Literary Supplement
Introduction; 1. 'Antique' Imagination and the Creation of the Villa-Palazzo: Origins and Precursors; 2. The Stanza del Fregio and Peruzzi's first architectural wall-painting; 3. The Lost Façade-Paintings: 'Di terretta con storie di man sua, molto belle'; 4. 1512 Overtures: The Villa, the Landscape Architecture and the Literature of Celebration; 5. The Second Phase, 1518-1519: The 'Hall of Perspectives', the Nuptial Suite and the Loggia di Psiche.
