Rome, Italy, 1977 Up-and-coming Italian artist Marta Valenti uses love as a motor for her art, valuing the exploration of her own identity and ancestral memory. All of her work is illuminated with almost unreal colors. Valenti studied Photography at the Instituto Europeo de Design. She was chosen..., Porto Ercole - Casina Pompeiana, Villa Comunale di Napoli - Centro per le Arti Visive ex-Pescheria
Isabella Stewart Gardner-Three Locations in the Creative Process' 1999 Villa Medici - Académie de... Fremde: Goethes Italienische Reise. Eine Installation' / ?Guests and Foreigners: Goethes Italian Journey
$39.95 hardcover 1-58685-174-8 < BR> 8 x 11 in, 160 pp, 150 Color Photographs, Rights: W, Design < BR> In her newest book, Villa Decor, Betty Lou Phillips discusses how to mix styles, furnishings, inspirations, and colors from different eras and locations to create the looks for which the French...more
Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton...more
Every traveler wants to feel as if they are the first to discover their destination—that’s why staying somewhere fresh, somewhere that is still a well-kept secret, is so important. And the only thing more important than visiting the right town is staying in the right room at the right place....more
Italy boasts a rich cultural history that has found its expression in beautiful, powerful architectural forms, at times measured and hidden, at times ostentatious and triumphant. This volume focuses on about thirty residential villas and palaces, giving the reader the opportunity to visit the magnificent palaces of Venice, Genoa, and...more
Struck by the magnificence of the Italian countryside from the time of her first sojourn there, our ranking novelist and lady of letters of the early 1900s—a renowned connoisseur—joined forces with the foremost illustrator of the time to celebrate a subject that was dear to them both: the incomparable villas...more
Roman in origin, the villa evolved from serving as a rural and farming center to a stately country residence. Over time the villa's agricultural function became secondary to a new ideal-a place for intellectual leisure and healthy country living. As a result, the new dwelling had to reflect a cultivated...more
This engaging collection of fifteen essays offers new perspectives on a wide range of subjects in Italian art history, architecture, history, and urban studies. Topics range from eleventh-century urbanism in Florence and northern influences on Lombard painting to the rewriting of history in the nascent Italian state. The contributors are...more