Villa Malta (Pincio)
The Villa Malta is a park with a palace in Rome . It is located between Villa Medici and Via di Porta Pinciana on the Pincio hill . It should not be confused with the Villa di Malta on the Aventine .
history
The villa is located in the area of the ancient Horti Lucullani . In the 16th century the first small country house with a tower was built for the Orsini family . In the 17th century the property with the name Giardino del Pino became the property of the monastery of Santa Trinità dei Monti , who rebuilt the building. From 1611 it was rented to different residents. From 1634 the property was leased to Cardinal Cosimo de Torres and his family, who in turn continued to rent it. So to Queen Maria Kazimiera Sobieska and to Balì de Breteuil, representative of the Order of Malta , to whom the villa owes its current name.
In 1764 the villa was leased to Antonio Parmegiani and in 1818 to Johan Niclas Byström . Bystöm restored the villa and built his studio into the palazzo. In 1827, King Ludwig I of Bavaria finally bought the villa, which remained with the Bavarian royal family after his death. In 1878 the Russian nobleman Alexander Bobrinski bought the villa and converted it to its current state in romantic historicism . In 1907 Bernhard von Bülow bought the villa.
After the Second World War, the property fell to the Jesuits , who set up the editorial office of the La Civiltà Cattolica magazine there.
Residents
In 1789 Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar moved into the villa and established her role as a meeting place for the German Romans . Johann Gottfried Herder was her guest . From 1794 to 1796 Prince Friedrich August von Hanover rented the villa. In 1802 Friederike Brun lived here for a few months , followed by Wilhelm von Humboldt and his family. Further guests were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Anton Raphael Mengs , Angelika Kauffmann , Joseph Anton Koch and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow .
Embassies
The Villa Malta served both Prussia and the Kingdom of Hanover as an embassy building.
literature
- Claudio Rendina: La grande belleza di Roma . Newton Compton editori, Roma 2014, ISBN 978-88-5416733-9
- Christiane Schachtner: Johann Christian Reinhart. The four views from the Villa Malta on Rome 1829-1835. Master's thesis, Faculty of History and Art Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 2007
Web links
- With Ferdinand Gregorovius in the Villa Malta at www.kuenstlerleben-in-rom.de
- Villa Malta at www.romasegreta.it with current picture (state of construction after renovation by Alexander Bobrinski from 1878)
Individual evidence
- ↑ romasegreta.it on Villa Malta last changed January 27, 2016, accessed on March 28, 2016
- ^ The FAZ on the magazine La Civiltà Cattolica Heinz-Joachim Fischer : The thinkers of the Villa Malta. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 28, 2003, accessed March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Barbara Koch Rachinger about the Villa Malta ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 28, 2016
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 20.7 " N , 12 ° 29 ′ 7.2" E