A pleasure palace where the walls appear to collapse on you. Built in the 1520s-30s for Federico Gonzaga by Giulio Romano, Raphael's brilliant, wayward pupil, Palazzo Te is Mannerism at full volume, a villa for feasts, horses and a mistress. Its most famous room, the Sala dei Giganti, paints the fall of the giants across every surface, ceiling to floor, so the whole room seems to crash down on the visitor, an early experiment in total, disorienting immersion. Playful, learned and slightly mad, it is one of the strangest great houses of the Renaissance.
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