Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
View of Villa Medici
Alternate Title:
Veduta di Villa Medici
Image View:
Detail, the gardens with a large Roman labra (basin) and the Obelisk of Ramses II (base visible at right), both later moved to Florence
Creator:
Paolo Anesi (Italian painter, 1697-1773)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 2617
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
ca. 1764 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
architecture; landscape; Medici family
Description:
The Villa Medici is on the Pincio Hill in Rome, purchased by Ferdinando de' Medici as the family's seat in Rome. The villa, with its gardens, art and sculpture collections, was one of the leading sites on the Grand Tour for a century and a half. The House of Lorraine, which took the place of the Medici family in 1737, had no interest in maintaining such a costly residence, so starting in 1770, it gradually began to dismantle the villa's Classical decorative scheme, moving many of the larger works visible in this 1764 view to Florence between 1770 and 1780. [Information from museum label.]
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-PAOLO-UG-VVM-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

View of Villa Medici