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

A view of the casino and gardens of the Villa Albani

published 1780

- 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.

• topographical view
• veduta

Etching and engraving

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

DR1984:0577

• perspective drawing

• exterior view

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"

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• topographique