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The Idea and Invention of the Villa
The villa holds a central place in the history of Western architecture. On the Italian peninsula in antiquity, and again during the Renaissance, the idea of a house built away from the city in a natural setting captured the imagination of wealthy patrons and architects. While the form of these structures changed over time and their location moved to suburban or even urban houses in garden settings, the core design tenet remained an architectural expression of an idyllic setting for learned pursuits and spiritual withdrawal into a domestic retreat from the city. After the Renaissance, the villa appears beyond an Italian context as an architectural form revived and reimagined throughout western Europe and in other parts of the world influenced by European culture.
The Idea and Invention of the Villa | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Ar the form and organization of villa architecture depend upon literary descriptions provided by the authors of ancient rome. particularly, the writings of columella (4–70 a.d. ) in de re rustica (i.6.1–3) and cato (234–149 b.c. ) in de agricultura (i.4.1) elaborate on the features of their villas in the campagna, the low-lying area surrounding rome. common among ancient writings, the villa enjoys from the natural setting restorative powers, or otium, in opposition to the excesses of city life, or negotium.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/villa/hd_villa.htm [4252 words]
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Musée d'Orsay: Claude Monet Villas at Bordighera claude monet (1840-1926) villas at bordighera 1884 oil on canvas h. 115; w. 130 cm © rmn (musee d'orsay) / herve lewandowski les villas a bordighera [villas at bordighera] this painting is a brilliant demonstration of monet's rediscovery of the mediterranean during his stay in italy in 1884.
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/villas-at-bordighera-10155.html?tx_comme [290 words]
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda (41.100.169.15) ¦ Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History ¦ The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the model for palladian architecture in england. a good example of the fascination for palladio's villa designs is the villa rotonda, which served as an ideal model for several widely publicized english villas, such as stourhead (ca. 1721), mereworth (ca. 1723), and lord burlington's own chiswick house (ca. 1725) near london. each villa was carefully placed in a landscape setting that evoked the current english vision of the classical golden age.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/41.100.169.15 [298 words]
Roman Painting | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art works that have survived are in the durable medium of fresco that was used to adorn the interiors of private homes in roman cities and in the countryside. according to pliny, it was studius "who first instituted that most delightful technique of painting walls with representations of villas, porticos and landscape gardens, woods, groves, hills, pools, channels, rivers, and coastlines." despite the lack of physical evidence, we can assume that many portable paintings depicted subjects similar to those found on the painted walls in roman villas.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropt/hd_ropt.htm [1890 words]
Architecture in Renaissance Italy | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1580) was the chief architect of the venetian republic, writing an influential treatise, i quattro libri dell'architettura ( four books on architecture ,1570; 41.100.126.19 ). due to the new demand for villas in the sixteenth century, palladio specialized in domestic architecture, although he also designed two beautiful and impressive churches in venice, san giorgio maggiore (1565) and il redentore (1576).
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/itar/hd_itar.htm [1273 words]
Boscoreale: Frescoes from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Me 177.8 x 102.2 cm) rogers fund, 1903 (03.14.7) ... view slideshow view thumbnails ... boscoreale, an area about a mile north of pompeii, was notable in antiquity for having numerous aristocratic country villas. this tradition endured into the time of the bourbon kings, as is attested by the region's name, the "royal forest," which implies that boscoreale was a hunting preserve. some of the most important wall paintings surviving from antiquity come from a roman villa at boscoreale built shortly after the middle of the first century b.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cubi/hd_cubi.htm [1010 words]
Musée d'Orsay: Frédéric Marin Mr B.'s Villa in the Saint Maur park but the low price per square metre attracted businessmen, shopkeepers and manufacturers as well. the gradual subdivision of the former grounds of the chateau enabled the wealthier classes to buy land and build villas in a residential area. the strong demand boosted the building industry. many architects moved in. joseph graf, a graduate of the ecole des arts decoratifs, went into partnership with frederic marin to establish an architects' office.
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/architecture/commentaire_id/mr-bs-villa-in-the-saint-maur-park-1 [338 words]