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During the 19th and 20th century, the term "villa" became widespread for detached mansions in Europe. Special forms are for instance spa villas (Kurvillen in German) and seaside villas (Bädervillen in German), that became especially popular at the end of the 19th century. The tradition established back then continued throughout the 20th ...
Cronkhill, designed by John Nash, the earliest Italianate villa in England Villa Emo by Palladio, 1559. The great Italian villas were often a starting point for the buildings of the 19th-century Italianate style. Cliveden: Charles Barry's Italianate, [8] Neo-Renaissance mansion with "confident allusions to the wealth of Italian merchant princes ...
Villa Fraccaroli, also called The Castle of Spirits, is a 19th-century villa in the town of Piovene Rocchette in the province of Vicenza, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. [1] It was initially commissioned by the Fraccaroli family for Paolina Carlotta Fraccaroli and her husband Francesco Dalla Negra who were landowners in the region.
Villa Webber is a 19th century Moorish-style villa located in the Padule region on the island of La Maddalena, in northern Sardinia. It was built on the highest point of the archipelago by James Philipps Webber between 1855 and 1857. It was inhabited by James Webber's family until 1928.
Cronkhill, Atcham, Shropshire, designed by John Nash, is "the earliest Italianate villa in England". [1]Drawing on influences from the Italian Campagna and the Picturesque, including the art of Claude Lorrain, it began an architectural style that was hugely influential in England in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Villa Farragiana a Meina is a 19th-century Neoclassical-style rural palace located on the shores of Lago Maggiore, between the towns of Meina and Arona in the Province of Novara, region of Piedmont, Italy. This villa differs from the Villa Faraggiana at Albissola Marina in the Province of Savona.
Villa Erba is a 19th-century villa in Cernobbio, on the western shore of Lake Como in northern Italy. [1] Its location is not far from the Villa d'Este luxury hotel in Cernobbio. The villa was built by Luigi Erba, brother of the prominent Italian businessman Carlo Erba [ it ] (founder of the Erba pharmaceutical company ), to express his ...
Villa Malfitano Whitaker is a 19th-century villa in Via Dante, in the quarter of Politeama of Palermo, Sicily. It is presently a museum displaying Whitaker's natural history and archaeological collections, as well as his artwork.