Villa Torlonia (Frascati)

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

History

In 1563 acquired the Italian writer Annibale Caro, who built the villa designed by architect Nanni di Baccio Bigio, the terrain.

As Caro died in 1579, the family Cenci acquired the property, but it was sold to the Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio of Como, who sold it in 1606 to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who commissioned the architect Flaminio Ponzo with work. Subsequently, the villa of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, who commissioned the architect Carlo Maderno with conversion and extension work acquired.

In 1661, Pompeo Colonna acquired the villa. Lucrezia Colonna inherited the mansion and sold the house in 1680 to Giuseppe Lothario Conti. The family Cesarini Sforza bought the house and sold it in 1841 to the Torlonia family. When the air raids on Frascati on September 8, destroyed in 1943, later reconstructed faithfully.

Reception

The baroque garden and water facilities in 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). Matthew Daniel Poeppelmann oriented for his work in Dresden at the Italian villa. Thus, the Villa Torlonia family or Ludovisi -Conti applies according to Michael Kirsten as a model for the long galleries of the Dresden Zwinger. Instead of the niches of the model but windows were used with round arch completion at Dresdner long gallery.

" For the long gallery Poeppelmann handle on the subject again a cave wall, which he knew from the villas at Frascati, in particular from the arcades result of water theater of Villa Torlonia ( Ludovisi -Conti ) ago "

John Singer Sargent, The Fountain Villa Torlonia Frascati Italy

John Singer Sargent, Villa Torlonia Fountain 1907