# Landscape with the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 50 x 99 cm ## Commentary Caspar van Wittel created a new type of painting around 1700, the veduta, that would inspire several generations of artists in the years to come, among them Canaletto, Bellotto and Guardi. His paintings are topographical representations of cities, palaces and villas, painted with a warm palette and always including a narrative around the daily life particular to the place depicted. The <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/maderno1/villa.html'\)" href="/html/m/maderno1/villa.html">Villa Aldobrandini</a> is situated in Frascati, to the south-east of Rome and still remains the property of the Aldobrandini family, for whom it was built in the 1500s. The villa was celebrated for its wonderful gardens and <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/porta\_g/zatlasfo.html'\)" href="/html/p/porta\_g/zatlasfo.html">fountains.</a> The present view is taken from the Piazza Municipale. ## Related artworks - [A View of Tivoli]() - [Bacino di San Marco \(detail\)]() - [Bacino di San Marco]() - [Castel Sant'Angelo from the South]() - [Landscape with the Villa Farnese at Caprarola]() - [Piazza San Marco: Looking South]() - [Rome: A View of The Colosseum]() - [Rome: A View of the Ponte Salario]() - [Rome: A View of the Port of Ripa Grande \(detail\)]() - [Rome: A View of the Port of Ripa Grande]() - [Rome: The Ponte Sisto]() - [Rome: The Tiber near the Porto di Ripa Grande]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()