Villa Muti

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Coordinates: 41°48′06″N 12°40′21″E / 41.8017194°N 12.6725833°E / 41.8017194; 12.6725833
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41°48′06″N 12°40′21″E / 41.8017194°N 12.6725833°E / 41.8017194; 12.6725833 Villa Muti is a villa in Frascati, Italy, now in the communal territory of Grottaferrata.

Matteo Greuter
1620 - Villa Muti

History

Initial construction on the site was started in 1579 by Ludovico Cerasoli.

Pompeo Arrigoni and then divided into two parts and given to relatives including his nephew Cardinal Ciriaco Rocci
. Later the villa was modified by different owners including Cesarini and the Amadei.

The Muti family, who had obtained the property in the 1900s sold it at the end of World War II to the "Comune di Grottaferrata".

Features

Inside there are frescoes by two major High

Ludovico Cigoli and of Moses on the Mount by Domenico Passignano
are in the first-floor rooms.

The villa has also elegant formal/English gardens of the villa with scenographic effects characterized by fantastic sculptures typical of Roman Mannerism; it is structured on various levels of different historical stratification of landscape created around 1850.

Presently the villa is not open to the public and the gardens lack upkeep.

Sources

References

  1. ^ Wells, Clara L. The Alban Hills: Vol. I. Frascati. Barbera, 1878. 117.
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