Il Museo del Costume Farnesiano di Gradoli, established in 1998, is located on the main floor and the top floor of Palazzo Farnese, restored between 1970 and 1980. Palazzo Farnese of Gradoli, commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro – future Pope Paul III – to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in 1517, represents one of the first examples of a humanistic residence, a testimony to the new aristocratic ethic of living during the Renaissance. A peculiar typological model of the noble residence where the architectural articulation and the decorative complex made up of frescoes, terracotta floors, and coffered wooden ceilings represent the apotheosis of a new existential philosophy. The decorative system is not an end in itself but becomes complex with symbolic and wise meanings functional to the exaltation of the Farnese family. The refined decoration of the palace, largely restored to full enjoyment, is the result of the project of a great master of Raphael’s culture very close to the style of Baldassarre Peruzzi. The Museum also displays a rich collection of ceramics, coming from the excavations of the palace itself, and reproductions of Renaissance and Baroque costumes, copies of those worn by Farnese characters in the various painted cycles of family glories.
Information about the Farnese Costume Museum
Luigi Palombini, 2
01010 Gradoli (Viterbo)
0761456082
bibliotecagradoli@beactive.it
https://www.comune.gradoli.vt.it
Source: MIBACT
