Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese

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Carole PaulWith an essay by Alberta Campitelli In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV (1730–1800) and the architect Antonio Asprucci (1723–1808) embarked upon the decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese that still largely determines the appearance of this justly celebrated showplace on Rome's Monte Pincio. Initially their attention focused on the Casino. The principal building at the villa, the Casino functioned from the first as a semipublic museum, and by 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's…