Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian

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January 11, 2006

David R. Coffin Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian University Park: Penn State University Press, 2004. 242 pp.; 145 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0271022930)

Mark Rosen

CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.3

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Best known as the architect of the sprawling Villa d’Este at Tivoli and the charming casino of Pius IV on the grounds of the Vatican, the sixteenth-century polymath Pirro Ligorio has not—until now—been the subject of a general-purpose biography. This is surprising considering the range of his accomplishments; beyond architecture, landscape design, and painting, Ligorio’s talents included cartography, the restoration of antique ruins and sculpture, and collecting (his set of ancient medals and coins was...