Villa Torlonia (Frascati)

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The Villa Torlonia in Frascati is a historic villa in Frascati, Italy .

Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati

history

In 1563, the Italian writer Annibale Caro , who had the villa built according to plans by the architect Nanni di Baccio Bigio , acquired the site.

When Caro died in 1579, the Cenci family bought the property but sold it to Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio of Como, who in 1606 sold it to Cardinal Scipione Borghese , who commissioned the architect Flaminio Ponzo to do the work. The villa was later acquired by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi , who commissioned the architect Carlo Maderno with renovation and expansion work.

Water theater by Carlo Maderno , 1607–25

In 1661, Pompeo Colonna bought the villa. Lucrezia Colonna inherited the villa and sold the house to Giuseppe Lotario Conti in 1680. The Cesarini-Sforza family bought the house and sold it to the Torlonia family in 1841 . Destroyed in the air raids on Frascati on September 8, 1943, later reconstructed true to the original.

reception

The baroque gardens and water systems of the villa were the subject of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (" The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy " and " Villa Torlonia Frascati Italy ") and other painters such as Jean-Paul Flandrin (28. May 1811 in Lyon; † March 8, 1902 in Paris). Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann based his work in Dresden on the Italian villa. According to Michael Kirsten, the villa of the Torlonia and Ludovisi-Conti families is considered a model for the long galleries of the Dresden Zwinger . Instead of the niches of the model, however, windows with rounded arches were used in the Dresden Long Gallery.

"For the long gallery, Pöppelmann again took up the motif of a grotto wall, which he knew from the villas around Frascati, in particular from the arcade sequence of the water theater in Villa Torlonia (Ludovisi-Conti)"

  • John Singer Sargent, Villa Torlonia Frascati Italy

  • John Singer Sargent, The Fountain Villa Torlonia Frascati Italy

  • John Singer Sargent, Villa Torlonia Fountain 1907

  • Jean-Paul Flandrin, View of the Villa Torlonia Frascati at Dusk

literature

  • Campitelli, Alberta (ed.) And Apolloni, Marco Fabio: Villa Torlonia: l'ultima impresa del mecenatismo romano ; Inst.Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 1997, ISBN 88-240-3808-5 .
  • Campitelli, Alberta: Villa Torlonia - storia ed architettura ; Palombi; Roma 1989.
  • Franck, Carlludwig: The Baroque Villas in Frascati , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1956.
  • Franck, Carlludwig: The villas of Frascati, 1550-1750 , Tiranti, 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see English Wikipedia and http://de.wahooart.com/A55A04/w.nsf/Opra/BRUE-8BWT65
  2. ↑ Michael Kirsten: The Dresden Zwinger , DKV-KUNSTführer No. 576/0, 1st edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munich Berlin, Munich undated, p. 19.

Web links

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Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 11.1 "  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 45.9"  E