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Abstract
Ordered by Cardinal Ricci, the decorations of the Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti show how a cardinal's palace looked on the eve of the Counter-Reformation. The main room of the palace was embellished by Francesco Salviati in 1554, and ten other rooms were decorated by lesser-known artists, headed by the Frenchman Ponsio Jacquio, between 1553 and 1556. The chronology of the decorations is reconstructed from payments in the Ricci archives, and their iconography is studied in relation to other palace decorations in Rome and to contemporary art treatises.
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Jan L. de Jong
Jan L. de Jong, a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden, has been an assistant professor at the University of Groningen since 1987. He works mainly on Roman palace and villa decorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries [Institute for Art History, Architectural History and Archaeology, P.O. Box 716, 9700AS Groningen, The Netherlands].