Autore/Curatore: Andrea Bruciati
Soggetto/Genere: Arte e Storia dell’Arte
Tipo: Monografia
Data: 2024

The residence of Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este – conceived by Pirro Ligorio and the prelate himself on the foundations of an earlier Roman residence from 1550 – owes its majesty to the excellent water availability of the Aniene River. This made it possible to explore water’s infinite artistic potential

and experience all its engineering and aesthetic wonders.

The villa represents the highest artistic expression of the antiquarian garden concept in the Renaissance.

The innovative design, the extraordinariness of the architectural works, and the genius of the artists and intellectuals who worked there have left imprints on the fountains, grottoes, nymphaeums, basins, and decorations, making it a relevant and unique example of the dialogue between artifice and nature that characterised the 16th century. Perhaps the most famous of the ‘wonder gardens’, it has been a model for developing European gardens. For this reason, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.

Under a management that synthesises monumental, architectural, historicalartistic and landscape heritage as a unicum that enhances the visitor’s experiential pathways, the villa now also presents itself as an organic open-air museum sensitive to contemporaneity.

Villa d’Este. Tivoli. Guide, a cura Andrea Bruciati
con testi di: Andrea Bruciati

Milano, Skira editore, 2024
64 pp., ill., col.
ISBN: 978-88-572-4758-8