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VILLA TORLONIA's Museum
There are few places like the Casino Nobile contain within themselves so much history, the pomp of the Torlonia Fascism.
House of the Owls IThe Museum House of the Owls - opened in 1997 - is located inside the park of Villa Torlonia on Via Nomentana. The building set on a hill has an original architecture and rich decoration, construction dates back to 1840 when the Venetian architect Giuseppe Jappelli created a curious building called "Swiss Hut" covered with rough cut stone plant with "L" and a small octagonal body, in 1908 Prince Giovanni Torlonia, owner of the villa, he decided to live in the building and ordered the extension and decoration elements and mediaeval liberty to entrust the architect Gennari: building were Indeed added penthouses jagged, turrets, balconies, loggias and porches and a variety of decorative elements such as pottery, wrought iron, mosaics, plaster and marble sculptures. The building has undergone further transformation between 1916 and 1920 by the architect Vincenzo Fasolo added that the structure of another body works on a wide porch with a vault supporting a terrace open space. It is to these two phases the execution of the work over forty stained glass created by related to leaded glass master Cesare Picchiarini designed by famous artists like Duilio Cambellotti, Paul Paschetto, Umberto Bottazzi, Vittorio Grassi. The presence of this rich collection suggested to use as the building of a museum window: close to the original restored and relocated in the original sites, and other specimens are exposed over a hundred sketches, preparatory drawings and cartoons. Between the windows of the casino, particularly mentioning those important Cambellotti as one called "the nail" with a rich depiction of leaves and grapes, one of the Owls, with stylized images of the nocturnal bird that recurs obsessively in decoration of the building and those with dynamic flight of birds in the series "Migration". Also noteworthy is the windows of Paul Paschetto with the series "Roses and Butterflies" and those Bottazzi entitled "The Peacocks." The death of Prince in 1939, the Casina was abandoned and from 1944 to 1947, during the occupation of the villa by the British military command American, suffered extensive damage to all decorative, delicate and precious. This degradation has been made even more difficult recovery and restoration works were completed with great professionalism by many different specialists. The museum also provides a path in the rooms where the prince lived Torlonia decorated with the theme of the owl. Address: Via Nomentana, 70 Hours: March 30 to 30 September 2008 at 9.00-19.00; from 27 February to 29 March and 1 to 25 October 2008 hours 9:00 to 17:30; from October 26 to February 26, 2008 9:00 to 16:30; Open December 24 and 31 9:00 to 14:00; Easter and Easter Monday 9:00 to 17:30 Closed Monday, January 1, May 1 and December 25 Prices: Adults: € 3,00 Reduced: € 1.50 Free under 18 and over 65 Phone: 0039 060608 from 9.00 to 22.30 Fax: 0039 06 44250166 Website: www.museivillatorlonia.it Email: info@museivillatorlonia.it Casino Nobile The Casino Nobile owes its appearance to Giuseppe Valadier, around 1802, then from 1835-40 to Giovan Battista Caretti said that the grand portico of the facade. Many painters worked on the decoration, which Podesti and Coghetti, as well as sculptors and plasterers school Thorvaldsen and Canova. When, from 1925 to 1943, the villa was leased to Benito Mussolini, in the basement were built a gas shelter and an air-raid shelter, visited by appointment. The restored building houses in two floors, the Museum of Villa, with sculptures and antique furniture. The second floor is the Museum of the Roman School, with paintings, sculptures and drawings of artists that corrente.Le works exhibited in the museum offer an overview of one of the most interesting and vital of Italian art of the twentieth century, research arts in Rome during the period between the first and second world war. They range from actors such as Antonio Donghi of Magic Realism, Francesco Trombadori, Richard Francalancia, Ferruccio Ferrazzi, at that particular moment known as "School of Via Cavour, with the works of Mafai, Antonietta Raphael, the thirties, largely represented by painters tonal - Corrado Cagli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Emanuele Cavalli, Roberto Melli, William Janni-and those close to the vest war a new language "realist" Ziveri Alberto, Fausto Pirandello, Guttuso, the young Renzo Vespignani. No lack of players in the field of sculpture as Pericles Fazzini, Mirko Basaldella, Leoncillo Leonardi and a masters of new realism. Despite the variety of expressive languages, the common definition of "Roman School" finds its justification in some elements of continuity which are determinant: the visceral bond with the city and its ancient myth, the cult of "craft" and experimentation, and, above all, a profound impatience with the idea of art as an expression of a scheme. Perhaps as a reaction to the rampant rhetoric, the works of these artists speak of realism and discharged, the look of anxiety, a city of culture in its most hidden or those about to disappear under the blows of the pickaxe healing. Address: Via Nomentana 70 From February 27 to March 29 and October 1 to 25, 2008 from 9:00 to 17:30, From October 26 to February 26, 2008 from 9:00 to 16:30 Open December 24 and 31 9:00 to 14:00 9:00 to 17:30 Easter and Easter Monday Closed Monday, January 1st, May 1st, December 25th. Prices: Adults: € 4.50 Reduced: € 2.50 Phone: 0039 060 608 from 9:00 to 22:30 Website: www.museivillatorlonia.it Email: info@museivillatorlonia.it
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VILLA TORLONIA's Museum
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There are few places like the Casino Nobile contain within themselves so much history, the pomp of the Torlonia Fascism. House of the Owls IThe Museum House of the Owls - opened in 1997 - is located inside the park of Villa Torlonia on Via Nomentana. The building set on a hill has an original architecture and rich decoration, construction dates back to 1840 when the Venetian architect Giuseppe Jappelli created a curious building called "Swiss Hut" covered with rough cut stone plant with "L" and a small octagonal body, in 1908 Prince Giovanni Torlonia, owner of the villa, he decided to live in the building and ordered the extension and decoration elements and mediaeval liberty to entrust the architect Gennari: building were Indeed added penthouses jagged, turrets, balconies, loggias and porches and a variety of decorative elements such as pottery, wrought iron, mosaics, plaster and marble sculptures. The building has undergone further transformation between 1916 and 1920 by the architect Vincenzo Fasolo added that the structure of another body works on a wide porch with a vault supporting a terrace open space. It is to these two phases the execution of the work over forty stained glass created by related to leaded glass master Cesare Picchiarini designed by famous artists like Duilio Cambellotti, Paul Paschetto, Umberto Bottazzi, Vittorio Grassi. The presence of this rich collection suggested to use as the building of a museum window: close to the original restored and relocated in the original sites, and other specimens are exposed over a hundred sketches, preparatory drawings and cartoons. Between the windows of the casino, particularly mentioning those important Cambellotti as one called "the nail" with a rich depiction of leaves and grapes, one of the Owls, with stylized images of the nocturnal bird that recurs obsessively in decoration of the building and those with dynamic flight of birds in the series "Migration". Also noteworthy is the windows of Paul Paschetto with the series "Roses and Butterflies" and those Bottazzi entitled "The Peacocks." The death of Prince in 1939, the Casina was abandoned and from 1944 to 1947, during the occupation of the villa by the British military command American, suffered extensive damage to all decorative, delicate and precious. This degradation has been made even more difficult recovery and restoration works were completed with great professionalism by many different specialists. The museum also provides a path in the rooms where the prince lived Torlonia decorated with the theme of the owl. Address: Via Nomentana, 70 Hours: March 30 to 30 September 2008 at 9.00-19.00; from 27 February to 29 March and 1 to 25 October 2008 hours 9:00 to 17:30; from October 26 to February 26, 2008 9:00 to 16:30; Open December 24 and 31 9:00 to 14:00; Easter and Easter Monday 9:00 to 17:30 Closed Monday, January 1, May 1 and December 25 Prices: Adults: € 3,00 Reduced: € 1.50 Free under 18 and over 65 Phone: 0039 060608 from 9.00 to 22.30 Fax: 0039 06 44250166 Website: www.museivillatorlonia.it Email: info@museivillatorlonia.it Casino Nobile The Casino Nobile owes its appearance to Giuseppe Valadier, around 1802, then from 1835-40 to Giovan Battista Caretti said that the grand portico of the facade. Many painters worked on the decoration, which Podesti and Coghetti, as well as sculptors and plasterers school Thorvaldsen and Canova. When, from 1925 to 1943, the villa was leased to Benito Mussolini, in the basement were built a gas shelter and an air-raid shelter, visited by appointment. The restored building houses in two floors, the Museum of Villa, with sculptures and antique furniture. The second floor is the Museum of the Roman School, with paintings, sculptures and drawings of artists that corrente.Le works exhibited in the museum offer an overview of one of the most interesting and vital of Italian art of the twentieth century, research arts in Rome during the period between the first and second world war. They range from actors such as Antonio Donghi of Magic Realism, Francesco Trombadori, Richard Francalancia, Ferruccio Ferrazzi, at that particular moment known as "School of Via Cavour, with the works of Mafai, Antonietta Raphael, the thirties, largely represented by painters tonal - Corrado Cagli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Emanuele Cavalli, Roberto Melli, William Janni-and those close to the vest war a new language "realist" Ziveri Alberto, Fausto Pirandello, Guttuso, the young Renzo Vespignani. No lack of players in the field of sculpture as Pericles Fazzini, Mirko Basaldella, Leoncillo Leonardi and a masters of new realism. Despite the variety of expressive languages, the common definition of "Roman School" finds its justification in some elements of continuity which are determinant: the visceral bond with the city and its ancient myth, the cult of "craft" and experimentation, and, above all, a profound impatience with the idea of art as an expression of a scheme. Perhaps as a reaction to the rampant rhetoric, the works of these artists speak of realism and discharged, the look of anxiety, a city of culture in its most hidden or those about to disappear under the blows of the pickaxe healing. Address: Via Nomentana 70 From February 27 to March 29 and October 1 to 25, 2008 from 9:00 to 17:30, From October 26 to February 26, 2008 from 9:00 to 16:30 Open December 24 and 31 9:00 to 14:00 9:00 to 17:30 Easter and Easter Monday Closed Monday, January 1st, May 1st, December 25th. Prices: Adults: € 4.50 Reduced: € 2.50 Phone: 0039 060 608 from 9:00 to 22:30 Website: www.museivillatorlonia.it Email: info@museivillatorlonia.it
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