Altra Vedvta in Prospettiva del Teatro et Giardino Contigvo di Mondragone in Frascati (...), from 'La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)', part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 18)

Publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi Italian

1691 or after

Not on view

The Villa Mondragone belongs to one of the most impressive, still surviving villa estates laid out at Frascati. Situated on an imposing terrace against the northwestern slope of the ancient Tusculum Hill, it enjoyed breathtaking vistas of the Roman countryside. The owners, first Cardinal Altemps and then, from 1613 onward, Scipione Borghese, derived their prestige from the villa's architectural improvements, paid for, in part, by profits from their agricultural undertakings. One of the central features, overlooking the private garden, or giardino segreto, with its boxwood parterres, was the water theater, which still survives in a slightly dilapidated form. Built for Cardinal Scipione Borghese by the Roman architect Giovanni Vansanzio (Jan van Zanten) in ca. 1618, this semicircular structure is reminiscent in form and decoration of Carlo Maderno's water theater at the Villa Aldobrandini.

See 1991.1073.145(34-51) for more information.

Artwork Details

Title: Altra Vedvta in Prospettiva del Teatro et Giardino Contigvo di Mondragone in Frascati (...), from 'La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)', part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 18)
Artist: Giovanni Battista Falda (Italian, Valduggia 1643–1678 Rome)
Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)
Date: 1691 or after
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/16 × 13 11/16 in. (23 × 34.7 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Gift of D. W. Langton, transferred from the Library
Object Number: 1991.1073.145(2.18)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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