03 — ARTWORK
Villa Allegri: Façade
BIANCHI, Giovanni Battista · 1656 →
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The imposing Villaa residence in the country (in Italy); villas acquired palace-like characteristics from the Renaissance onwards. 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 oratoryA place where Oratorians pray or preach; a small private chapel. 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 <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/d/dorigny/louis/3/index.html')" href="/html/d/dorigny/louis/3/index.html">decorated with frescoes</a> by Louis Dorigny in c. 1719.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Villa Allegri: Façade by BIANCHI, Giovanni Battista},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bianchi-giovanni-battista-rde5444380340cc/villa-allegri-faade-r3ef2ef825a22f4},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA BIANCHI
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