5025 x 3350 px | 42,5 x 28,4 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
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Illustrated travels a record of discovery geography and adventure edited by h w bates assistant secretary of the royal geographical society with engravings from original drawings by celebrated artists cassell petter and & galpin London paris new york. giardino segreto of the lower terrace, ordinarily visible only from the casino and the upper terraces; orange trees in pots punctuate its balustrades. Vasi merely indicates the patterned beds on the lowest level, later swept away by the familiar extensive landscape. A more expansively sited new villa, the Casino, was begun in 1644—the year that Giovanni Battista Pamphili became pope as Innocent X—by his nephew, Camillo Cardinal Pamphilj, whom Innocent appointed cardinal; work progressed on it in stages until 1652. The design, after a more extravagantly modern design by Francesco Borromini had been rejected, was placed in the hands of the Bolognese, Alessandro Algardi, who is better known as a sculptor, assisted by Giovan Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680) who has a modest reputation as a landscape painter but who was responsible for the decor of the galleria in Palazzo Borghese. For such a project, the designers and the patron had need of the services of a trained professional. Carlo Rainaldi, from a family of mason-architects and engineers, served in this capacity. He had suffered bitter disappointment the same year when he was replaced by the young Borromini on the Pamphili church of Sant'Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona, for which he had just completed the foundations. The villa was designed as a complement to the Pamphili collection of sculptures both ancient and modern, and Roman antiquities: vases, sarcophagi and inscriptions, Most of the Pamphili marbles are today in the Capitoline Museums. The somewhat crowded exterior rhythmically alternates windows with niches containing statues both antique and modern, and busts in hollowed roundels, with panels of bas-reliefs, giving a rich allure that was somewhat cons
