Villas

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 93

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 94

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 105

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 112 NOTES: The so-called Hall of the Philosophers is now thought to have been a room where the emperor held audiences and met in council with court dignitaries.

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 113

NOTES: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, refronted the existing Chiswick House and designed and built the adjoining villa to display his art collection and entertain friends in 1727-1729. He was inspired on his grand tour by Palladio's Villa Capra 'La Rotonda' near Vicenza.

NOTES: The Villa was built completely during the first ten years of Hadrian's rule in two phases. The Canopus was part of the second phase executed in 125-133.

SOURCE: Richard Brown. Domestic architecture (London: George Virtue, 1842), plate 28

SOURCE: Richard Elsam. The practical builder's perpetual price-book (London, 1825), frontispiece NOTES: The plate shows Elsam's design for a castellated villa prepared, in the year 1808, for Mr. Alderman John Claudius Beresford, of Dublin.

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. I Quattro libri dell' architettura (Venice, 1570), second book, p. 47