Fresco, Room of Judgement, Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Lazio, Italy

Fresco of the Judgement of Solomon, with a soldier threatening to kill the baby claimed by 2 women, painted 1569-71 by Jacopo Zanguidi called Bertoja, 1544-74, from the central ceiling vault of the Room of Judgement, in the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. This is the room where the Cardinal granted audience. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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