Author: Daniela Sequi
Media: By Courtesy of Jacopo Cicogna Mozzoni
Situated in Bisuschio, in Valceresio, the valley connecting Varese to Lake Lugano, the Villa Cicogna Mozzoni is a specimen of authentic Lombard Renaissance. The Mozzoni family, feudal lords in the terrain of Varesotto, built it and modified it over the centuries, employing unknown architects, beginning with the original structure, constructed in 1463 and used as a lodge for hunters of bear and wild boar. In those years the Duke of Milan, Giangaleazzi Visconti, during a hunt in surrounding territories, found himself faced with a ferocious specimen of brown bear from which the illustrious guest was saved, by the landlord , Count Augustine, helped by his dog. After such an episode the prestige of the Mozzoni family grew notably
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Author: Daniela Sequi
Palazzo Bettoni Cazago di Bogliaco, is famous for its garden which looks on to Lake Garda and is a sublime example of baroque architecture. It is situated in one of the most beautiful natural ambiences in Lombardy, the Brescian landscape lapped by Lakes Nenaco, Sebino and Eridio, better known by the names of Garda, Iseo and Idro, and characterised by glacial alps and, down below, by moraine which descend as far as the rivers in the valley. The visible unity between noble residence and garden , in fact, give the place an original compositional equilibrium which has been celebrated since the Seventeenth Cenury
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Media: Fabrice Malzieu
Because when you paint a landscape you construct a kind of setting. One observes from one point of view, then from another and yet another.One seeks to obtain an overall vision of the place and, as if nature were three dimensional, it is necessary to take into account volumes, of the earth, of light, so as to construct space, to create.
Terraces and gardens
The Villa Aldobrtandini, one of the most famous Frascati villas, with its monumental Baroque facade, stands, severe and imposing, above Piazza Marconi. It dominates the countryside with its panoramic terraces, sloping down towards the Eternal City. To visit this noble residence, with its terraces and garden-park, we need to go up the
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San Quirico d'Orcia
The work of Lattanzi was extraordinary . In times when the conception of a garden for public use was unheard of, we may note that he realised these Gardens for " passers by"; This did not correspond to criteria for the function of a noble dwelling and gardens in the fifteenth century There are no other cases in Sienese territory of other
Photo Gallery
We have to thank Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) for the choice, in 1915, of Lausanne as the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (CIO), founded in Paris 23rd June 1894. "The Olympic spirit will find in the proud independent atmosphere of Lausanne , the guarantee of liberty which it needs to flourish", declared
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Because when you paint a landscape you construct a kind of setting. One observes from one point of view, then from another and yet another.One seeks to obtain an overall vision of the place and, as if nature were three dimensional, it is necessary to take into account volumes, of the earth, of light, so as to construct space, to create. Read article>>
