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The Villa Albani (later Villa Albani-Torlonia) is a villa in Rome, built on the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani.It was built between 1747 and 1767 by the architect Carlo Marchionni in a project heavily influenced by others – such as Giovanni Battista Nolli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's collection of antiquities, curated by ...
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Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista piraˈneːzi;-eːsi]; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione).
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:11, 24 October 2009: 1,141 × 1,712, 24 pages (35.26 MB): Bkmd {{Scanned Italian Book | Image = | Author = Giovanni Battista Piranesi | Editor = | Translator = | Title = Le antichita Romane | Subtitle = Prefazione | Series title = Opere di Piranesi | Volume = 1 | Edition = | Publisher =Firmin Didot Freres | Print
Marchionni's Borromini-influenced style is identifiable in Marchionni's early work (1728) for Cardinal Albani's villa at Anzio and at the papal retreat of Castel Gandolfo. Marchionni helped restore and rebuild the choir at San Giovanni in Laterano along with Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who is best known for his etchings of Roman ruins. Piranesi ...
Villa Torlonia is a name of several country retreats of the princely family of Torlonia on the outskirts of Rome and in Frascati (Lazio) including: Villa Torlonia (Frascati) Villa Torlonia, San Mauro Pascoli; in Rome: Villa Albani-Torlonia with its entrance in the via Salaria, better known by its former name, the Villa Albani; Villa Torlonia (Rome)
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