# Villa Allegri: Façade

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BIANCHI, Giovanni Battista](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bianchi-giovanni-battista-rde5444380340cc>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Photo

## Commentary

The imposing Villa Allegri complex looks out on an elaborate Italian-style garden. It was built around 1656 by the Allegri family, nobility from Verona, on the site of a preexisting sixteenth-century structure. It was designed by the Veronese architect and sculptor Giovanni Battista Bianchi. A double-ramp staircase leads to the adjoining oratory which was rebuilt in its current form in the early eighteenth century. In 1824 the entire property was acquired by Antonio Arvedi, a wealthy industrialist from Trento. The main hall of the villa and the oratory was &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/d/dorigny/louis/3/index.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/d/dorigny/louis/3/index.html&#34;&gt;decorated with frescoes&lt;/a&gt; by Louis Dorigny in c. 1719.

## Attribution

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