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Background information
Birth nameMichael Volpe
Also known asClammy Clams
BornMay 12, 1987 (age 33)
Nutley, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
Years active2008–present
Labels
Associated acts
  • Fish Narc
Websiteclammyclams.com

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Michael Volpe (born May 12, 1987), known professionally as Clams Casino, is an Italian-American record producer and songwriter from Nutley, New Jersey.[1][2] Volpe is currently signed to Columbia Records and Sony Music. He has produced tracks for artists such as ASAP Rocky,[3]Lil B,[4]Vince Staples,[5]Joji,[6] and Mac Miller[7] and has also remixed works by Big K.R.I.T.,[8]Washed Out,[9] and Lana Del Rey.[10]

Career[edit]

A resident of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Volpe got his start in music tinkering with keyboards while he was a student at Nutley High School.[11]

Volpe's official debut EP Rainforest was released through Tri Angle Records on June 27, 2011.[12] His Instrumentals mixtape was released on March 7, 2011,[13] followed by the release of Instrumentals 2 on June 5, 2012[14] and Instrumentals 3 on December 18, 2013.[15] The mixtapes were distributed for free through his website.

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Volpe contributed a score for Locomotor, a work choreographed by his cousin Stephen Petronio released on April 4, 2014.[16] He released his debut studio album 32 Levels through Columbia Records on July 15, 2016. He followed it up with his Instrumentals 4 mixtape, released on June 26, 2017.

In April 2020, Clams Casino cleared the Imogen Heap sample for his instrumental 'I'm God', which first appeared on Lil B's 2009 album 6 Kiss.[17][18] The song remains his most popular song with nearly 25 million views on Youtube.

Musical style[edit]

Volpe's music has been described as '[bringing] together conventional hip-hop drums, a sensitive ear for off-to-the-side melodies, and an overdose of oddly moving atmosphere.'[19] Associated genres include witch house and cloud rap.

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Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

List of studio albums, with selected details
TitleAlbum details
32 Levels
  • Released: July 15, 2016
  • Label: Columbia, Sony Music
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download
Moon Trip Radio
  • Released: November 7, 2019[20]
  • Label: Columbia, Sony
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download, streaming

Mixtapes[edit]

List of mixtapes, with selected details
TitleAlbum details
Instrumentals
  • Released: March 7, 2011
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: digital download
Instrumentals 2
  • Released: June 5, 2012
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: digital download
Instrumentals 3
  • Released: December 18, 2013
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: digital download
Instrumentals 4
  • Released: June 26, 2017
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: digital download

Extended plays[edit]

Artist
List of extended plays, with selected details
TitleAlbum details
Rainforest
  • Released: June 27, 2011
  • Label: Tri Angle Records
  • Format: digital download, vinyl, CD

Singles[edit]

As lead artist[edit]

List of singles as lead artist, with showing year released and album name
TitleYearAlbum
'Wizard'2011non-album singles
'Worth It'
(with Danny Brown)
2015
'Blast'201632 Levels
'Witness'
(featuring Lil B)
'All Nite'
(featuring Vince Staples)
'A Breath Away'
(featuring Kelela)
'Be Somebody'
(featuring ASAP Rocky and Lil B)
'Be Somebody (Remix)'
(featuring ASAP Rocky, AJ Tracey and Lil B)
non-album singles
'Live My Life'
(featuring Lil B)
'Time'Savefabric
'Kali Yuga'
(with Ghostemane)
2017non-album singles
'Summer Bummer (Clams Casino Remix)'
(with Lana Del Rey featuring ASAP Rocky and Playboi Carti)
'Vampire Knight'
(with Chxpo)
2018

As featured artist[edit]

List of singles as featured artist, with showing year released and album name
TitleYearAlbum
'4 Gold Chains'
(Lil Peep featuring Clams Casino)
2018non-album singles
'Can't Get Over You'
(Joji featuring Clams Casino)
2018Ballads 1
'NITROUS'
(Joji featuring Clams Casino)
2020Nectar

Compilations[edit]

List of compilations, with selected details
TitleAlbum details
Instrumental Relics
  • Released: April 24, 2020
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: digital download

References[edit]

  1. ^Kuperinsky, Amy (January 8, 2012). 'Making a scene: A new generation of New Jersey hip-hop asserts itself'. New Jersey On-Line.
  2. ^Dombalon, Ryan (March 31, 2011). 'Rising: Clams Casino'. Pitchfork Media.
  3. ^Lester, Paul (November 17, 2011). 'New band of the day – No 1,151: Clams Casino'. The Guardian.
  4. ^Montes, Patrick (May 16, 2013). 'Producer Clams Casino on His 'Weird' Relationship with Our 4Knots After Party Headliner Lil B'. Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  5. ^'Vince Staples Hops on Clams Casino's 'All Nite''. Highsnobiety. 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  6. ^'Joji teams with Clams Casino for new single 'CAN'T GET OVER YOU''. The FADER. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  7. ^Roos, Brandon E. (November 27, 2011). 'Clams Casino Talks Making Strong Connections With Mac Miller And A$AP Rocky'. HipHopDX. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  8. ^Martin, Andrew (December 20, 2011). 'Listen: Big K.R.I.T. 'Moon & Stars (Clams Casino Remix)''. Complex.
  9. ^Thiessen, Brock (November 9, 2011). 'Washed Out – 'Amor Fati' (Clams Casino remix)'. Exclaim!. Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  10. ^Adams, Gregory (January 17, 2012). 'Lana Del Rey – 'Born to Die' (Clams Casino remix)'. Exclaim!. Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  11. ^Olivier, Bobby. 'How this Nutley artist became New Jersey's latest music pioneer', NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 21, 2016. 'The EDM bleed has paid dividends for Mike Volpe, a Nutley native better known as Clams Casino, who has become one of the most sought-after digital designers in hip-hop's experimental universe.... 'It's great, how easy it is to get stuff out, and make music at home and all the sudden people everywhere can hear it,' he says, from his home in Hasbrouck Heights.... The Nutley High School grad first began to tinker with beats as a teen, fooling around with basic keyboards and synthesizers, much simpler ones than the machines now scattered around his basement home studio.'
  12. ^Sharp, Elliott (July 5, 2011). 'Guide To New Music, 7/5/11: New Releases by Clams Casino, Exhumed, Memory Tapes, and Pursuit Grooves'. Philadelphia Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  13. ^Reynaldo, Shawn (January 2, 2012). 'Clams Casino Offers 'Instrumentals' for Free'. XLR8R. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  14. ^Shaw, Steve (June 12, 2012). 'Clams Casino: Instrumentals 2'. Fact.
  15. ^Fitzmaurice, Larry (January 8, 2014). 'Clams Casino: Instrumental Tape 3'. Pitchfork Media.
  16. ^Seibert, Brian (April 4, 2014). 'Come Here, Look Back, Move Forward – Stephen Petronio Company Marks Its 30th Anniversary'. The New York Times.
  17. ^'10 songs you need in your life this week'. The FADER. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  18. ^Chris. 'Clams Casino's legendary, Imogen Heap-sampling 'I'm God' finally gets an official release'. GORILLA VS. BEAR. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  19. ^'Clams Casino: Instrumental Mixtape'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  20. ^Yoo, Noah (October 29, 2019). 'Clams Casino Announces New Album Moon Trip Radio, Shares New Song 'Rune': Listen'. Pitchfork. Retrieved October 30, 2019.

External links[edit]

  • clammyclams on SoundCloud
  • ClamsCasinoMusic's channel on YouTube
  • Clams Casino discography at Discogs
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Side view of the main Southeastern front of Villa Farnese

The Villa Farnese, also known as Villa Caprarola, is a pentagonalmansion in the town of Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, Northern Lazio, Italy, approximately 50 kilometres north-west of Rome. This villa should not be confused with the Palazzo Farnese and the Villa Farnesina, both in Rome. A property of the Republic of Italy, Villa Farnese is run by the Polo Museale del Lazio.

The Villa Farnese is situated directly above the town of Caprarola and dominates its surroundings. It is a massive Renaissance and Mannerist construction, opening to the Monte Cimini, a range of densely wooded volcanic hills. It is built on a five-sided plan in reddish gold stone; buttresses support the upper floors. As a centerpiece of the vast Farnese holdings, Caprarola has always been an expression of Farnese power, rather than a villa in the more usual agricultural or pleasure senses.

History[edit]

Prospetto principale di Palazzo di Caprarola by Giuseppe Vasi, c. 1746–1748

In 1504, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III, acquired the estate at Caprarola. He had designs made for a fortified castle or rocca by the architects Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Baldassare Peruzzi.[1] Surviving plan drawings by Peruzzi show a pentagonal arrangement with each face of the pentagon canted inwards towards its center, to permit raking fire upon a would-be scaling force, both from the center and from the projecting bastions that advance from each corner angle of the fortress. Peruzzi's plan also shows a central pentagonal courtyard and it is likely that the later development of the circular central court was also determined by the necessities of the pentagonal plan. The pentagonal fortress foundations, constructed probably between 1515 and 1530,[2] became the base upon which the present villa sits; so the overall form of the villa was predetermined by the rocca foundations.

Subsequently, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a grandson of Pope Paul III, and a man who was known for promoting his family's interests, planned to turn this partly constructed fortified edifice into a villa or country house. In 1556, he commissioned Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola as his architect,[3] building work commenced in 1559 and Vignola continued to work on the villa at Caprarola until his death in 1573.[4] Farnese was a courteous man of letters; however, the Farnese family as a whole became unpopular with the following pope, Julius III, and, accordingly, Alessandro Farnese decided it would be politic to retire from the Vatican for a period. He therefore selected Caprarola on the family holding of Ronciglione, being both near and yet far enough from Rome as the ideal place to build a country house.

Design[edit]

The Scala Regia in the Villa Farnese

The villa is one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture. Ornament is used sparingly to achieve proportion and harmony. Thus while the villa dominates the surroundings, its severe design also complements the site. This particular style, known today as Mannerism, was a reaction to the ornate earlier High Renaissance designs of twenty years earlier.

Vignola, the architect chosen for this difficult and inhospitable site, had recently proved his mettle in designing Villa Giulia on the outskirts of Rome for the preceding pope, Julius III. Vignola in his youth had been heavily influenced by Michelangelo. For the villa at Caprarola, his plans as built were for a pentagon constructed around a circular colonnadedcourtyard.[5] In the galleried court, paired Ionic columns flank niches containing busts of the Roman Emperors, above a rusticated arcade, a reworking of Bramante's scheme for the 'House of Raphael', in the Borgorione, Rome. A further Bramantesque detail is the entablature that breaks forward over the columns, linking them above, while they stand on separate bases. The interior loggia formed by the arcade is frescoed with Raphaelesque grotesques, in the manner of the Vatican Logge. The gallery and upper floors were reached by five spiralstaircases around the courtyard: the most important of these is the Scala Regia ('Royal Stairs') rising through the principal floors.

Approach and entrance[edit]

The approach to the Villa Farnese is from the town's main street, which is centred on the villa, to a piazza from which stairs ascend to a series of terraces beginning with the subterranean basement excavated from the tuff, surrounded by steep curving steps leading to the terrace above. This basement floor in the foundations, which functioned as a carriage entrance in inclement weather, features a massive central column with a series of buttresses and retaining walls; on the exterior, large heavily grilled doors in the rusticated walls appear to lead into the guardrooms of a fortress, while above them a curved balustraded external double stairway leads to the terrace above. This in turn has a formal double staircase to the principal entrance on the Piano dei Prelati floor which is accessed from the broad terrace. This bastion-like floor, which appears in the elevation as a second ground floor, is rusticated, the main door a severe arch flanked by three windows on each side. The facade at this level is terminated by massive solid corner projections.

Above this is the double-height piano nobile, where five huge arched windows incongruously dominate the facade over the front door; above this sit a further two floors for housing gentlefolk with servants above them, the numerous windows divided on the exterior by rusticated pilasters in dressed stone.

Fasti Farnesiani ( Farnese Deeds') by Taddeo Zuccari, portrays Francis I of France and Charles V

Interiors[edit]

The villa's interiors are arranged over five floors, each floor designed for a different function. The main rooms are located on the first floor or piano nobile, where a large central loggia (now glazed in) looks down over the town, its main street and the surrounding countryside. This hall is known as the Room of Hercules on account of its fresco decorations,[6] and was used as a summer dining hall. It has a grotto-like fountain with sculpture at one end. To either side of the loggia are two circular rooms: one is the chapel, the other accommodates the principal staircase or Scala Regia, a graceful spiral of steps supported by pairs of Ionic columns rising up through three floors and frescoed by Antonio Tempesta.

The two grand apartments at first floor level are symmetrically-matched in plan and complete the remaining enclosure of the courtyard. Each has a series of five rooms with state rooms, which begin with the largest reception hall nearest the entrance and proceed, with increasing intimacy and decreased size, to a bedroom, wardrobe and studiolo at the northern end; an ordered suite that would become standardized in the 17th century as the Baroque state apartment. The different orientations of these two apartments allows for a seasonal differentiation; the east, or summer apartment is associated with the active life, the west, or winter range with the contemplative life.[7] The scrupulous symmetrical balance of the two apartments is carried through by their matching parterre gardens, each reached by a bridge across the moat and cut into the hillslope.

The suites are famous for their Mannerist frescoes. The iconographic program of frescoes expressing the glory of the Farnese was worked out by the humanists in Farnese's court, notably his secretary, Annibale Caro;[8] The fresco cycles portray the exploits of Alexander the Great, and of course of the Farnese themselves: in the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani (the Room of Farnese Deeds), decorated by the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, the Farnese are depicted at all their most glorious moments, from floor to coffered ceiling.[9] Other artists employed in fresco decoration include Giacomo Zanguidi (il Bertoia), Raffaellino da Reggio, Antonio Tempesta, Giacomo del Duca, and Giovanni De Vecchi. The Flemish painters Joos van Winghe and Bartholomaeus Spranger assisted il Bertoia with the decorations in the rooms he had been commissioned to finish.[10]

Among the frescoed subjects of the contemplative winter suite is the famous 'Room of the World Map' or Sala del Mappamondo, displaying the whole known world as it was in 1574 when the frescoes were completed.[11] Above, the frescoed vault depicts the celestial spheres and the constellations of the zodiac.

Gardens[edit]

The gardens of the villa are as impressive as the building itself, a significant example of the Italian Renaissance garden period. The villa's fortress theme is carried through by a surrounding moat and three drawbridges. Two facades of the pentagonal arrangement face the two gardens cut into the hill; each garden is accessed across the moat by a drawbridge from the apartments on the piano nobile and each is a parterre garden of boxtopiary with fountains. A grotto-like theatre was once here. A walk through the chestnut woods beyond, leads to the giardino segreto, or secret garden, with its well-known casino.

The Casino[edit]

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The Casino, a small habitable summerhouse with two loggie for al fresco dining. It was built probably on designs by Giacomo del Duca, with later alterations were made to the area around the casino by the architect Girolamo Rainaldi.[12] The casino is approached by stairs contained between heavily rusticated grotto walls, with a central catena d'acqua, a cascaded rill or 'water-staircase', which the water flows down to a stone basin. At the top of the steps and set in an oval space are large statues of two reclining river gods to either side of a large central vase fountain. Stairs built into the oval walls lead up to the parterred terrace in front of the south facade of the casino. This part of the terrace is lined by stone herms with cypress trees. To the north of the casino is a private garden which steps up slightly and accommodates roses.

Today[edit]

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Alessandro Farnese died in 1589 bequeathing his estates to relations - the Farnese dukes of Parma. The Cardinal's fabulous collection was transferred eventually to Charles III of Spain in Naples. In the 19th century the villa became for a while the residence of the heir to the throne of the newly united Italy.

Elements of the villa's Renaissance gardens have influenced many estate gardens of the 19th and 20th century by landscape designers, such as Beatrix Farrand, A.E. Hanson, and Florence Yoch. 1920s gardens with a catena d'acqua include the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills and 'Las Tejas' in Montecito, California, with the latter also having a casino in direct homage to the original at Villa Farnese.[13]

Today the casino and its gardens are one of the homes of the President of the Italian Republic. The empty main villa, owned by the State, is open to the public. The numerous rooms, salons and halls with their marbles and frescoes, and the architecture of the great palazzo-like villa are still as impressive and daunting as they were first intended to be.

Filmography[edit]

  • Several scenes from the TV series Medici: Masters of Florence are set in Villa Farnese.[14]
  • Several scenes from 2003 movie Luther Luther was filmed in Villa Farnese, featuring the central courtyard and Scala Regia.

The Villa was depicted both as the interior of Papal Palace in Vatican and as Castel Gandolfo in the original Netflix movie The Two Popes.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Coffin David, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome, Princeton University Press, 1979: 281-5
  2. ^Coffin, 1979: 281
  3. ^Coffin, 1979: 285
  4. ^Partridge, Loren W. 'Vignola and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola', Part I The Art Bulletin52.1 (March 1970:81-87), Part II
  5. ^Partridge Loren W., 'The Farnese Circular Courtyard at Caprarola: God, Geopolitics, Genealogy, and Gender', The Art Bulletin83.2 (June 2001:259-293)
  6. ^Partridge, Loren W. 'The Sala d'Ercole in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, Part I' The Art Bulletin53.4 (December 1971:467-486), 'Part II' The Art Bulletin54.1 (March 1972:50-62).
  7. ^Baumgart, 1935 noted by Kish 1953:51; Coffin, 1979: 296-7.
  8. ^Robertson, Clare. 'Annibal Caro as Iconographer: Sources and Method Annibal Caro as Iconographer: Sources and Method' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes45 (1982:160-181); see also Baumgart, Fritz. 'La Caprarola di Ameto Orti', Studi Romanzi, 25 (1935:80); in 240 Latin verses, La Caprarola of Ameto Orti (c 1585-89) describes the beauties of the Farnese castello.
  9. ^Partridge, Loren W. 'Divinity and Dynasty at Caprarola: Perfect History in the Room of Farnese Deeds', The Art Bulletin60.3 (September 1978:494-530).
  10. ^Véronique Bücken, 'Deux flamands dans l’atelier de Jacopo Bertoja: Joos van Winghe et Bartholomaeus Spranger', in: Jadranka Bertini (red.), Lelio Orsi e la cultura del suo tempo. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Reggio Emilia – Novellara 1988, Bologna, 1990, pp. 49–56
  11. ^Kish, G. ' 'The Mural Atlas' of Caprarola' Imago Mundi10 (1953:51-56); the date 1574 is worked into the border of the map of Europe (p. 53); Kish identifies the sources in contemporary printed maps; the ideology of status, service, and personal merit behind the presentation of maps was interpreted by Partridge, Loren W. 'The Room of Maps at Caprarola, 1573-75' The Art Bulletin,77.3 (September 1995:413-444); the frescoes are revisited by Quinlan-McGrath, Mary. 'Caprarola's Sala della Cosmografi', Renaissance Quarterly50.4 (Winter 1997:1045-1100).
  12. ^Coffin, 1979: 302 although later alterations were made to the area around the casino by the architect Girolamo Rainaldi.
  13. ^Streatfield, David. 'California Gardens: Creating a New Eden.' Abbeville Press. New York, London, Paris. 1994. ISBN1-55859-453-1. pp. 127. 107-11.
  14. ^'Palazzo Farnese a Caprarola: le location della serie tv i Medici Masters of Florence'. 6 March 2017.
  • Murray, Peter J. (1963). The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance. London: Batsford. pp. 240ff.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Palazzo Farnese (Caprarola).
  • Great Buildings Online: Villa Farnese - Giacomo Vignola: images, drawings, and data.

Coordinates: 42°19′47.99″N12°13′55.19″E / 42.3299972°N 12.2319972°E

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