Loggetta Chigi frescoes   

by:   Peruzzi      patron:   Chigi      category: Fresco    location: Villa Farnesina

note:  This small loggia that runs along the Sala dei Prospettive and has been attributed to Peruzzi and his school (?) with a lukewarm reception as to its quality [see: Frommel, Peruzzi, p. 97, no. 55 and plate XXXVIIIa; Dacos, La decouverte, p. 37]; complicating interpretation, however, is the extensive reworking of this chamber by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists.