Villa Giulia

Casino della Vigna

Villa di Papa Giulio

Villa of Pope Julius

Bartolomeo Ammanati (Italian architect, 1511-1592)

Jacopo da Vignola (Italian architect, 1507-1573)

J. J. Olivier and Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Horace (French painter, draftsman, and educator, 1802-1897)

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italy

1551-1555 (creation)

16th century

elevation of façade

ground floor plan

view of the exterior

first floor plan, elevations

plans

exterior perspectives

Vignola settled permanently in Rome and soon entered papal service. His first major work was the Villa Giulia (Villa di Papa Giulio

1551-1555) or, more precisely, its casino. Located above the Via Flaminia just outside the Porta del Popolo, the villa suburbana consists of a small U-shaped palace, the casino, to which is attached a rectangular walled garden court terminating in a loggia and a sunken neo-antique nymphaeum. The complex was built for Julius III and apparently conceived by Vasari in consultation with Michelangelo in the winter of 1550

Vignola is recorded at work there from February 1551 until March 1555. From a lost master-plan attributable to him, it is known that two arcaded wings were to have extended laterally from the casino and the garden court was to have been lozenge-shaped. These remarkable features were discarded soon after construction began and in 1552 Bartolomeo Ammanati was commissioned to redesign much of the court and nymphaeum. Apart from assisting in hydraulic work for the fountains, Vignola was concerned only with the construction and decoration of the casino. The building's two-storey façade was innovative for its rational integration of all parts into an expressive unit.

line drawings (drawings)

Architectural Documentation

palazzi

town houses

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residential structures

elevations

plans

Renaissance

Italian

architectural exteriors

architectural interiors

rulers and leaders

court

Letarouilly, Paul Marie. Edifices de Rome Moderne. Paris: A. Morel, 1868, 202.

Public Domain

Ammanati, Bartolomeo

Vignola, Jacopo da