"Concludo che non vidi mai la piu bella casa in Italia": the frescoed decorations in Francesco II Gonzaga's suburban villa in the Mantuan countryside at Gonzaga.

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Brown, Clifford M. | Copyright information

Francesco II desired a villa that would be unrivalled in terms of visual imagery, decorations and grandeur elsewhere in Lombardy. He hired artists such as Andrea Mantegna, Gerolamo Corradi, Polidoro and Benedetto Ferrari. Federico II added a 'palazzina' in addition to the existing 'palazzo' and he commenced a decorative campaign in 1490. The upgrading consisted primarily of decorative motifs in the ceilings, frescoes, murals which depicted the landscape and inhabitants of cities and other su...

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