Villa
Palladio – In Pursuit of the Perfect House
A villa by architect Andrea Palladio was a place where the owners could feel happy, secure and content, which is after all, what most of us still require and aspire to, a place where one can cultivate the head, heart, body and the soul.
A ‘Compleat’ Gentleman, more than a leader of style
In London much of the development in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century was in the hands of aristocratic landowners. But were they ‘compleat’ gentlemen?
La Casa di Villa – Dwelling under the Tent of Heaven
The precise location of heaven on earth has never really been established, but it could very well be a villa designed to cultivate the head heart body and soul
What Is: An Ancient Roman Villa, the cultural ideal of rural life?
It was the Roman social commentator Pliny the Elder who recorded that there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or any another city) where you could spend a pleasurable night or two. And, the villa rustica, the farm-house estate, which was permanently occupied by servants who had charge generally of the running and servicing of the estate, which the owner visited seasonally.
Staying Well in the Garden of Life during the Renaissance
When in 1563 Humanist Poet Annibal Caro retired into private life, to alternate between Rome and the countryside, he said ‘I seem to have found the alchemy of staying well’
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