Giovanni Francesco Venturini’s etching of the “Stanza de Venti” (Room of the Winds) in Villa Aldobrandini, which features Mount Parnassus in the style of a nymphaeum, ca. 1691.
Featured on PDR in the essay Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond
Idling alongside the waters of artificial grottoes, visitors found themselves in lush, otherworldly settings, where art and nature, pleasure and peril, and humans and nymphs could, for a time, coexist. Laura Tradii spelunks through the handmade caves of the Italian Renaissance and their reception abroad, illuminating how these curious spaces transformed across the centuries.
Also appearing in the essay…
Room of the Winds in Villa Aldobrandini
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1691
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