Palazzo Farnese
Palazzo Farnese is one of Rome’s standout High Renaissance palaces—and you can feel that “courtly scale” even before you get lost in the details. Construction began in 1515, after a couple of years of preparation, and it was commissioned for the Farnese family by Alessandro Farnese, a cardinal appointed in 1493 at age 25. Work hit a major pause with the Sack of Rome in 1527. Then the story turns: in January 1534, Alessandro became Pope Paul III, and the palace’s size and design ambitions grew fast. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger—already tied to St. Peter’s through Bramante’s circle—guided key parts of the project, while Michelangelo completed the redesigned third story with its deep cornice and revised the courtyard. By the end of the 16th century, the Farnese Gallery gained Annibale Carracci’s fresco cycle, *The Loves of the Gods*—a turning point that helped split painting’s path toward Roman High Baroque and Classicism. …
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