Panchronia

Palazzo del Te

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Architecture · c. 1524–1534 · Mantua · Europe

A villa as a joke: slipping triglyphs and a Hall of Giants where the room itself collapses

Palazzo del Te
Sailko · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Author
Giulio Romano
Style
Mannerism — Renaissance harmony deliberately unbalanced: stretched bodies, cold colour, crowded space
Century
16th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

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