Villa Lante Press Articles

Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review - Gorgeous gardens grow in the hills around Rome

November 23, 2008 --

BAGNAIA, Italy -- I know how to get to paradise in this life.

It lies atop a hill about 60 miles north of Rome where a...

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Architectural Review, The - In the garden of good and …

February 1, 2006 -- GREAT EUROPEAN GARDENS--ATLAS OF HISTORIC PLANS GREAT EUROPEAN GARDENS--ATLAS OF HISTORIC PLANS By Sven-Ingvar Andersson and Margrethe Floryan....

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Apollo - What is a renaissance garden? Garden historians use the terms 'renaissance', 'mannerist' and baroque' freely—and often interchangeably, Tim Richardson argues that such art-historical classifications fail to distinguish between the many traditions of

July 1, 2005 -- Garden history is still a relatively young subject--it got into its stride only in the 1960s--and there are many gaps in scholarship and research....

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Architectural Review, The - Villa Lante's miraculous and gentle balance between humanity and nature continues to inspire

May 1, 2004 -- The Villa Lante, at Bagnaia some 40 miles north of Rome, was built (probably by Vignola) for Cardinal Gambara in the 1570s. It has often been...

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