A passionate collector of Greek and Roman antiquities, Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779) created a magnificent neoclassical villa – subsequently owned by the Torlonia family – in Rome. This large, handsome volume describes the villa’s creation, and the influence of Piranesi and the German scholar Winckelmann on the cardinal, while more than 200 full-page colour photographs illustrate the villa’s architecture, gardens and its extensive collection of ancient statuary.
Villa Albani Torlonia, with its collections, the Italian garden, and the hemicycle of the Kaffeehaus, is a sublime testimony of that particular antiquarian taste which came to the fore in the mid-eighteenth century, that for which Rome became a favourite destination on the Grand Tour. The classicist dream of Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692 1779), was preserved thanks to the Torlonia family, who purchased the villa in 1866, enlarging the collection and the gardens and restoring the most important cardinal residence of the eighteenth century. More than 300 images by the great Italian master Massimo Listri recount the history of this extraordinary cultural heritage for the very first time. An immersive journey leads the reader between its collections of ancient masterpieces. Statues, bas-reliefs, and fountains are ensconced between the various buildings and gardens of the villa in a composition of environments, landscapes, and works of art forever waiting to be discovered.
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