A view of the casino and gardens of the Villa Albani

People:

Francesco Panini (draughtsman)
Giovanni Trevisan Volpato (engraver (printmaker))
Carlo Marchionni (architect)
Calcografia Camerale (client)

Title:

A view of the casino and gardens of the Villa Albani

Date:

published 1780

Description:

- This print shows a view of the palace, or casino, of the Villa Albani overlooking the terraces, fountains and parterres of the garden. The classical garden façade of the casino is two storied and comprised of nine bays. The first story has an open loggia articulated by a double Order in the manner of Michelangelo's Palazzo dei Conservatori. On the roof sits a rectangular open-air belvedere with a small pavilion in each of its four corners. To either side of the casino stretch one-storied wings, or galleries, each terminating in a classizing temple front turned to face one another across the garden façade of the casino. Various pieces of antique sculpture are located at different points throughout the garden.

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

topographical view
veduta

Technique and media:

Etching and engraving

Dimensions:

plate mark: 47.4 x 67.8 cm sheet: 55.3 x 80.9 cm

Reference number:

DR1984:0577

Method of Projection:

perspective drawing

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted - l.l.: "Francesco Panini delin."; l.c.: "Prospetto meridionale del Palazzo della Villa Albani"; l.r.: "Giovanni Volpato inci."; l.c.: [a legend keyed numerically to the image]; l.c.: "In Roma presso Carlo Antonini Incisore Camerale con Privilego l'anno 1780" inscribed - by a modern hand, in graphite, l.l.: "5175"

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture
topographic

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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