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Collection:
Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive
Image No.:
201768
Title:
Villa Lante (complex)
View:
The bench situated at the highest point behind the spring in the garden functions as the beginning of the central axis and is the focal point connecting the panorama
Dates:
1568-1600
View Type:
cross sections
View Date:
1992
Location:
Europe--Italy--Lazio --Bagnaia
Location Type:
Current
Culture:
Italian
Period:
Renaissance
Creator:
architect
Vignola, Jacopo da
1507-1573
Italian
Creator:
patron
Gambara, Giovanni Francesco
1533-1587
Italian
Creator:
architect
Maderno, Carlo
1556-1629
Italian
Creator:
fontaniere
Ghinucci, Tomaso
-1587
Category:
Villas
Work Type:
Villas (complexes)
Subjects:
Villa Lante (Bagnaia, Italy); Gambara family; Axes (open spaces); Architectural drawings; Sight lines
Work Notes:
Bagnaia, the town adjacent to the villa, had functioned as a summer residence for various cardinals from nearby Viterbo since the 15th century. Around 1512 Ottaviano Riario erected a hunting casino on the site of the Villa Lante within a 25 hectar woodland that had been set aside as a hunting park. (Barth, 2001, 43-44)
Image Notes:
Ree, van der Paul, Gerrit Smienk and Clemens Steenbergen. Italian villas and gardens. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1992, p. 182.
Copyright Notice:
(c) Paul van der Ree, Gerrit Smienk and Clemens Steenbergen
Rights Type:
fair use - These images are intended for research and educational use only. To obtain copyright permission for publication or other purposes, you must contact the copyright holder directly.

Villa Lante (complex)