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	Villa Lante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Villa Lante at Bagnaia near Viterbo, attributed to Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (there is no contemporary documentation) is, with Bomarzo, one of the most famous Italian 16th century Mannerist gardens of surprises.
		The villa is known as the "Villa Lante".
		The gardens of the Villa Lante are the villas' principal fame, especially the water features, from cascades to fountains and dripping grottos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villa_Lante (1495 words)

	Untitled Document
		The primary pieces of the villa organization are arranged symmetrically along a central axis, with the scale of the elements growing smaller as the procession away from the house.
		The organization of the Villa Lante is composed of two primary components -- the parterre garden, and the barchetto which are tied together by the perimeter enclosure.
		The entry to the villa is adjacent to the village at the palace.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~bradleyg/h-italy.html (1216 words)

	Villa Lante Bagnaia Viterbo
		VILLA LANTE To BAGNAIA FOUNTAINS Of the DELUGE: Fountains of the deluge (or Mount of the Rain) ago to come down its waters between cliffs, caverns and vegetation, from a top that she sends back to an archaic harmony between man and nature that within Lante Villa to symbiotic Bagnaia one finds perfect.
		The extraordinary particularitity of Lante Villa is inborn in the great of the garden regarding the architectonic work in fact the residence double in two small buildings twin (even if constructed in various times) symmetrical regarding the axis centers them of the garden that dominates the entire composition through the water distance.
		The Villa is crossed longitudinally from a stream that gushes out up from the cliff and follows the slope of the land, taking advantage of some the unevenness and joining together them with terraces and the Fontanels until placers in the square of Fountains of the Moors.
	www.infoviterbo.it /villa_lante_bagnaia_eng.htm (702 words)

	Trinity College
		Villas and Gardens of Tuscany is a multimedia presentation of the most notable palaces, their builders, owners, and vicissitudes, in preparation for the firsthand visits to follow.
		Villa Lante in Bagnaia was commissioned by a cardinal member of the Visconti dynasty; it would later pass into the possession of a series of religious nobles.
		Villa D’Este in Tivoli is one of the most famous palazzi; originally a cardinal’s residence, the villa towers above a gardens filled with playful fountains and a water organ supplied by a diverted river.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/elderhostel/Villas.htm (992 words)

	Villas of the Papal Nobility - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A nymphaeum was erected on the hills behind the villa and connected to the upper formal garden by an imposing double staircase; the secret garden on the Eastern side was adorned with an octagonal fountain.
		The villa was conceived as a stage set, focal point of a superb formal garden structured according to a complex design of fountains, basins and pools where aesthetic aspects merge with symbols and allegories.
		The villa itself was heavily damaged during World War II but the gardens remained unmarked and maintain their exceptional variety of plants and the fine architectural structures, arranged along the central axis, leading to a particularly large and impressive theatre of waters.
	whc.unesco.org /fr/listesindicatives/351 (2023 words)

	Papal Villas
		The Farnese Palace in Caprarola is definitely a residence of the powerful transplanted into a rural setting, whereas Villa Lante is the archetype of the Italian garden (geometric, regular forms where nothing is planted by chance), an expression of the "back to nature" philosophy that became very fashionable among the upper classes in the Renaissance.
		The Villa Lante in Bagnaia is the exact contrary, inasmuch as the essential element is the giardino all'italiana.
		Villa Lante at Bagnaia is open 7 days a week (except May 1, Christmas and New Year's Day), Nov-Feb, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; March and October, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., May-Aug., 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
	www.explore-italy.com /papal_villas.htm (1036 words)

	J.-E Berger Foundation: THE ENCHANTED GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Villa Lante was thus not created by lay princes such as Orsini or Gonzagues, but by men of the Church.
		The latter, a cardinal at the age of seventeen, was the nephew of Pope Sixtus V. The combination of Gambarra, a mature man, and Montalto, an adolescent, would produce one of the strangest Italian villas and one of the strangest Italian parks.
		It should be noted that after having been the episcopal see, the villa was sold to the Duke of Lante in the 17th century.
	www.bergerfoundation.ch /Jardin/bagnaia-intro_english.html (257 words)

	History
		The Villa, famous especially for its garden and the many and the many fountains with which it is embellished, was magnificently built and restored on the ruins of a Roman Villa by Pirro Ligorio in 1550, on commission on governor at the time (Ippolito d'Este).
		On the outskirts of Tivoli stands the magnificent Villa Adriana, the sumptuous residence of Emperor Hadrian, which gives the visitor an exceptional idea of Roman architecture and statuary and is one of the finest examples of an imperial residence.
		The Villa d'Este is the most famous of all the Renaissance and Mannerist residences in Europe.
	www.villadiesterestaurant.com /History/history.html (637 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.3.07
		Villa Lante is an important architectural monument originally built for Baldassare Turini (1485-1543) by Giulio Romano beginning about 1518.
		Villa Madama is grand and self-contained, while Villa Lante is intimate and includes the view over Rome as an essential element.
		Originally executed for Baldassare Turini, when the villa passed into the possession of the Lante family shortly after his death, various parts were altered to allude to the new owners, and in the course of time other changes were made.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/98.3.07.html (1629 words)

	Villa Lante, an envied niche at fifty — Virtual Finland
		Housed in a splendid Renaissance palazzo of convenient size known as Villa Lante, the institute stands on the slopes of the Janiculum (Italian: Gianicolo), the hill across the Tiber from the famous Seven Hills.
		Villa Lante stands on the Janiculum hill overlooking the eternal city.
		Villa Lante was acquired for the purpose in 1950.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27668 (631 words)

	Villas
		The second perspective that we could take in the study of these villas and gardens is that of the form maker.
		In this course we will investigate whether concepts of ideal proportion were applied to the villa gardens as well their structures.
		During the Medieval period some classical learning was preserved in Constantinople which fell to the Turks in 1453 A.D. Scholars fled from Constantinople to Florence and it is their influence as well as a growing prosperity which ushers in the new age.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /italy2004/villaIntro/menu.htm (596 words)

	A Renaissance Masterpiece - New York Times
		The plans for the Villa Lante are also attributed to Vignola (and they are consonant with his style), though there is no firm documentation.
		By the time Michel de Montaigne visited Italy in 1580, the villa was already considered one of the country's wonders, and the French essayist, in his ''Voyage en Italie,'' left an enthusiastic description, especially of the formal garden and the ''square fountain,'' on which the Moors had not yet been installed.
		The Villa Lante really boasts two gardens; or rather, the formal garden and a much larger, informal park where you can wander at will, a sloping wood mostly of evergreen ilex, with broad areas of grass, where local mothers bring their children to play in fine weather.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DA1638F93BA35757C0A966958260&sec=travel&pagewanted=print (1382 words)

	Bettina Lamm: Explorative Space: Spatial Expression and Experience in Gardens and in VR Works
		The gardens of Villa Lante from the Italian renaissance and Stourhead from the 18th century England are chosen because they illuminate the point about place as fiction and pleasurable exploration very clearly.
		Lante consists of two individual but related areas: one is a small forest with a few cut paths and selected sculptural arrangements, the other is a formal garden organized around a central axis and a water theme.
		In villa Lante the sculptures are directly related to Ovids Metamorphose and the passages fr.orn the forest through the formal garden illustrate the transition theme in the story.
	www.immersence.com /publications/2002-BLamm.html (7854 words)

	Villa Lante's miraculous and gentle balance between humanity and nature continues to inspire Architectural Review, The ...
		The Villa Lante, at Bagnaia some 40 miles north of Rome, was built (probably by Vignola) for Cardinal Gambara in the 1570s.
		Instead of dominating the landscape with a huge palace (as Vignola did at the nearby Villa Farnese), Gambara was prepared to divide his summer residence into two small casini (one finished for a successor by Maderno).
		All is calm and green, smelling of water, box and grass, enlivened by the gentle chatter and splash of the stream as it hurries from terrace to terrace.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1287_215/ai_n6073439 (230 words)

	Villa Lante, Bagnaia \| Italy Heaven
		As is often the case in Italy, the term 'villa' is misleading, because it's really the garden for which the place is famous.
		One of Italy's greatest gardens, Villa Lante is open to the public and, combined with a leisurely lunch and a wander around the town, makes a lovely day out.
		The Villa Lante (not the only one in Italy) is named after the Lante della Rovere family, who owned the estate for three centuries until 1933.
	www.italyheaven.co.uk /bagnaia.html (1249 words)

	A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome - Villa Lante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome - Villa Lante
		This villa is located at Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10 on the Janiculum Hill south of the Vatican.
		Since 1950 the villa has been the home of the Istitutum Romanum Finlandia, the Finnish school of classical studies in Rome.
	www.jacobite.ca /gazetteer/Rome/VillaLante.htm (170 words)

	Gardens of the Late Renaissance
		The Villa Giulia was the most important garden to be created in the area of Rome since 1527; it was begun in 1551 for Pope Julius III (1551-55) by Giocomo Vignola, Bartolomeo Ammanti, and Giorgio Vasari.
		This villa was strongly influenced by the Villa Madama's interpenetration of indoor and outdoor spaces.
		The Villa Lante is the ultimate expression of humanist ideas about garden design, but no garden has ever surpassed the Villa d'Este's display of fountains.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_design/28330/2 (454 words)

	Villa Lante by Jefferson Davis \|\| Landscape Architecture Study Tour \|\| Instructor, Jack Ahern \|\| Department of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FOUNTAIN OF PEGASUS: Derived from the statue above the Oval Fountain in the Villa d'Este, this fountain tells the story of the winged horse's hoof striking the earth which sparks the Spring of Hippocrene, which is the symbol of the source of artistic creativity.
		FOUNTAIN OF THE GIANTS: The two statues represents the Tiber and Arno Rivers, which is symbolic of the fertility that water brings to the land.
		Villa Lante is located in the village of Bagnaia, north of Rome.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~jfa/latour/2005/JDavis/index.html (499 words)

	Orto Botanico, Rome-History
		One of Italy's most exquisite Renaissance gardens, Villa Lante was originally built as a hunting lodge for the wealthy and influential Gambara Family in 1562.
		The gardens of the villa are laid out in a symmetrical plan with a central axis containing a number of cascading water features.
		The lavish fountains at the Villa Lante provide a glimpse into the Orto's former appearance as a formal garden.
	www.design.upenn.edu /hspv/rome/history/gdn/LANTE.html (102 words)

	Best Villas: Day-O villa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Day-O villa nestles itself on the charismatic community of Silver Sands which situates itself on Jamaicaâs beautiful coast i.e.
		It is a private beach villa which is wholly equipped with 3 large air conditioned bedrooms.
		A 2minute walk from the villa is the beach of Silver Sands which possesses a beach side bar and restaurant.
	www.bestvillas.com /best-blogs/2006/04/day-o-villa.htm (218 words)

	Travel Journal - Latium Region of Italy - Rome is a Must
		Villa Lante is Just outside of Viterbro, off the S204 is the Villa Lante.
		A villa, not much open to the public, but a wonder classic Italian garden complete with a water segment of fountains, fountains and more fountains.
		The Villa Lante, and it not the only one in Italy with this name, is named after the Lante della Rovere family, who owned the estate for three centuries until 1933.
	www.marcuslink.com /travel/latium.html (1272 words)

	Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens + Landscapes
		Early modern humanists and churchmen revived villa life all’antica (in the ancient mode) and embraced aristocratic ideals both classical and seigniorial, bringing the court life of Rome to the country.
		During the Borghese pontificate the Villa Mondragone was a Vatican in the countryside, a ceremonial setting in which the pope exercised his spiritual and temporal powers.
		19th-century etching of the northern terrace of the Villa Mondragone
	catena.bgc.bard.edu /frascati/text.htm (1266 words)

	SU \| menu \| study workshops
		Villa Lante, Bagnaia, engraving by Tarquinio Ligustri, 1596.
		The SU workshop directors have taken study groups to Bagnaia (Villa Lante), Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Ostia Antica, Caprarola, and Frascati.
		The relationship of the urban design and planning of the spaces/places in these cities to urban developments found in Rome is a pertinent portion of the workshop sessions.
	www.studiumurbis.org /menu/workshopExcursions.html (150 words)

	Villa d'Este - World Travel Guide
		The Villa d'Este was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, who had been appointed Governor of Tivoli by Pope Julius III.
		Pirro Ligorio was commissioned to lay out the gardens for the villa, with the assistance of Thomaso Chiruchi of Bologna, one of the most skilled hydraulic engineers of the 16th century, who had worked on the fountains at Villa Lante.
		The grounds of the Villa d'Este also house the Museo Didattico del Libro Antico, a teaching museum for the study and conservation of antiquarian books.
	www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Villa_d'Este (220 words)

	A.G.TUR, VISITA GUIDATA DI VILLA LANTE A Bagnaia-VITERBO
		Villa Lante was built at the foot of the Cimini Mountains, above the small town of Bagnaia.
		The villa is located in the middle of a big park with fountains and century-old trees covering about 20 hectares of land.
		The complex is named after the Lante Della Rovere family, who held the villa from the mid-seventeenth century until the 1930’s.
	www.tusciaguide.it /inglese/ukterritorio/ukmonumenti/ukrinascimento/ukbagnaia.htm (223 words)

	Villa Lante G12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This villa was built for the maecenas humanist from Tuscany Baldassarre Turino, the friend of Raphael, who wanted to create a residence for the meetings of the poets, writers, scholars and musicians.
		In 1551 the villa came into possession of the Pisan family Lante, who added it to their ample private territory on Janiculum.
		Actually the villa is a seat of Roman Finnish Institute.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/G12.htm (113 words)

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