Rome

Fülszöveg

Vast parks and game reserves, sumptuous villas - nothing was too magnificent for the papal summer retreats, built to escape the stifling heat of the Eternal City. Hidden away behind the often austere façades of these palaces lies the most prodigious of Roman heritages - frescos, sculpture, paintings, furniture, artisticaily-laid-out gardens -jealously guarded by the great families who laid the fortune of the city: the Orsini, Colonna, Farnese, Medicis and others. In this companion volume to their Villas and Gardens of Tuscany, author Sophie Bajard and photographer Raffaeilo Bencini have once again pooled their talents to reveal the splendour of Rome's treasures and to recount the fascinating story of its prestigious palaces.

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From the 15th to the 19th centuries, in line with evolving fashion, the palaces and gardens of Rome were
BUILT AND REBUILT IN ANTIQUE, MANNERIST, BAROQUE OR CLASSICAL STYLE. The greatest architects, PAINTERS AND other artists,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Vast parks and game reserves, sumptuous villas - nothing was too magnificent for the papal summer retreats, built to escape the stifling heat of the Eternal City. Hidden away behind the often austere façades of these palaces lies the most prodigious of Roman heritages - frescos, sculpture, paintings, furniture, artisticaily-laid-out gardens -jealously guarded by the great families who laid the fortune of the city: the Orsini, Colonna, Farnese, Medicis and others. In this companion volume to their Villas and Gardens of Tuscany, author Sophie Bajard and photographer Raffaeilo Bencini have once again pooled their talents to reveal the splendour of Rome's treasures and to recount the fascinating story of its prestigious palaces.

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From the 15th to the 19th centuries, in line with evolving fashion, the palaces and gardens of Rome were
BUILT AND REBUILT IN ANTIQUE, MANNERIST, BAROQUE OR CLASSICAL STYLE. The greatest architects, PAINTERS AND other artists, INCLUDING RAPHAEL, BORROMINI AND VASARI, VIED WITH EACH OTHER IN TALENT AND INGENUITY TO CATER FOR THE WISHES OF THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENTS WHO SOUGHT TO BUILD STATELY retreats BOTH WITHIN THE eternal CiTY ITSELF AND IN THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE. THE AUTHORS REVEAL TO US HERE EIGHTEEN
OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS, RANGING FROM THE EDEN OF THE ViLLA MEDICIS TO THE SPLENDOURS OF THE ViLLA FARNESINA.
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