Villa Spedalotto
The Villa Spedalotto is a classicism building in Santa Flavia , Sicily .
Building history
The nobility of nobility and money in Palermo followed the general trend, especially in the 18th century, to create a summer residence outside of Palermo in Bagheria . At the beginning of the 18th century there were only about twenty villas, by the end of the century there were more than sixty representative country houses. The Villa Spedalotto was commissioned by Don Barbaro Arezzo on a hill in Bagheria in 1783. The architect Giovanni Emanuele Incardona , a student of Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia, built the classicist building between 1784 and 1793. The villa, which was not yet completed, was acquired in 1790 by the Marchese Paternò di Spedalotto. The listed building is still owned by the Paternò di Spedalotto family. Karl Friedrich Schinkel made a sketch of this villa during his trip to Italy between 1803 and 1805.
Building description
Original plans envisaged a two-story building. Due to the hillside location, the piano nobile with its closed courtyard facing the garden was laid out as a single-storey complex in the style of a Pompeian country villa . A ground floor with a barrel vault was created on the sloping terrain towards the sea, so that there is a two-story view with a wide terrace. In the late 19th century, a vestibule with six Doric columns was placed in front of the classical main facade . In the largely preserved interior of the building, the ceilings and walls are decorated with classicist frescoes and gouache paintings by Elia Interguglielmi , some of which are clearly inspired by Simon Vouet . In addition to grotesques in octagonal medallions and grisailles with mythological content, the allegorical "Four Seasons" and the "Four Continents" are particularly worth mentioning.
literature
- Angheli Zalapi and Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi: Palaces in Sicily . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2117-8 .
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Coordinates: 38 ° 4 '25.3 " N , 13 ° 31' 3.9" E