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- Title
- Alticchiero
- Description
- Giustiniana Wynne, later Countess Justine Rosenberg-Orsini, was born in Venice in 1737. A respected author and art historian, she was a prominent member of the pan-European intellectual circle based in Venice. Wynne's early years are better known for a clandestine affair with the son of one of Venice's ruling families, Andrea Memmo; because of their different social classes, they could not marry. She later married Count Rosenberg-Orsini in a secret ceremony. Wynne is also known for an encounter with Casanova and appears in his memoirs. Alticchiero, or Altichiero, is the name of Angelo Querini's villa and gardens on the banks of the river Brenta, near Padua. Querini (1721-1796) was a senator and officer of the Republic of Venice, until his moderate views led to his imprisonment. Upon his release, he retired to Altichiero and created a haven for enlightenment ideas through sculpture, gardens, and landscape architecture. The gardens included an "altar of friendship" and an "altar of the furies" as well as aviaries, labyrinths, and hunting grounds, detailed in the plan shown here.
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- Q. 914.5312 Or8a1787
- See Also
- Full Text Available at HathiTrust
- Authors
- Rosenberg-Orsini, Justine
- Full Title
- Alticchiero par Mad[am]e J.W.C.D.R.
- Date
- 1787
- From the Exhibit
- Building a Library: Arts
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Location
- Padua
- Language
- French
- Rights
-
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- Text
- Medium
- Book
- Bibliographic Citation
- Rosenberg-Orsini, Justine. Alticchiero par Mad[am]e J.W.C.D.R. Padua: [publisher not identified], 1787. Print.