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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 ...
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 ...
The Piranesi Vase in the British Museum. The Piranesi Vase or Boyd Vase is a reconstructed, colossal marble calyx krater from ancient Rome, on three legs and a triangular base, with a relief around the sides of the vase. It is 107 inches (2.71m) tall and 28 inches (0.71m) in diameter.
Alessandro Torlonia was a great collector of Greek and Roman antiquities, purchasing or excavating quantities of sculpture to add to the Torlonia Collection. [4] [5] In 1866, Prince Alessandro purchased the Villa Albani, which contained many outstanding Graeco-Roman artifacts assembled by the late Cardinal Alessandro Albani, a nephew of Pope Clement XI.
The restaurant serves southern specialities including fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, braised oxtail, chicken wings, ribs, candied yams, cornbread, peach cobbler, and pear pie. [8] The television show Diners, Drive Ins and Dives featured one of the restaurant's dishes, Yammed Fried Chicken, in its fried chicken episode.
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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Santa Maria della Mercede e Sant'Adriano a Villa Albani ([ˈsanta maˈriːa ˈdɛlla merˈtʃeːde e santaˈdrjaːno a ˈvilla alˈbaːni]) is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in north-central Rome, dedicated to Mary of Mercies and Adrian of Nicomedia.