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peopled with statuary flanked the main avenue of the Casina, and there was an isolated sunken parterre, though these features were not integrated in a unified overall plan. The overgrown avenues contrasting with the dramatic Roman walls inspired
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in via di Porta Pinciana and cypress-lined avenues centered on each of the facades of the main villa, laid out through open fields, the main approaches to both the villa and the
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Inventories of Villa Ludovisi have been partly published: paintings inventory of 1623 (C.H. Wood, "The Ludovisi Collection of Paintings in 1623"
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The engraving is illustrated in Eva-Bettina Krems, "Die 'magnifica modestia' der Ludovisi auf dem Monte Pincio in Rom."
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was added, largely to house the Cardinal's growing collection of Roman sculptures and inscriptions, which
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to declare in 1828 that the Villa Ludovisi's gardens were among the most beautiful in the world.
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became optimistically associated with Villa Ludovisi in the 19th century (as in Th. Schreiber,
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The Boncompagni Ludovisi financial crisis of 1893-96 is analysed in S. Palermo,
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to inspect the villa and its grounds and indulge in some snobbish daydreams:
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was driven through the former grounds, part of which are occupied by the
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Terra, cittĂ , finanza. I Boncompagni Ludovisi di Roma (1841-1896)
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M.P. fritz, "Der statuenhain in den Gärten der Villa Ludovisi",
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took shape, borrowing its name from the cardinal and his villa.
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erected in the 1620s the main villa building to designs by
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Frescoes in the villa were carried out by Domenichino,
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was driven through the heart of Villa Ludovisi's park
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The sculptures had been described by Th. Schreiber,
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Index

suburban villa
Rome
Gardens of Sallust (Horti Sallustiani)
Porta Salaria
Francesco Maria Del Monte
Ludovico Ludovisi
Domenichino
collection of Roman antiquities
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Pluto and Persephone
Giovanni Battista Falda
exedra
Casino dell'Aurora
Aurelian Walls
parterres
bosquets
Stendhal
Guercino
casina
Alessandro Algardi
Boncompagni
Ludovisi
Victor Emmanuel II
Rosa Vercellana
Prince of Piombino
Casino dell'Aurora
Via Veneto
American Embassy in Palazzo Margherita
Rione Ludovisi
The gardens of the Villa and the Aurelian Walls in the early 1880s, in a painting of Ettore Roesler Franz

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