Libros

A stunning collection of photographs celebrating the excellence of the Italian Renaissance period through palaces and gardens built between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book illustrates ten locations of extraordinary artistic and architectural interest, conceived by prominent Italian (...)

Villa Albani Torlonia con le sue collezioni, fontane, sculture, scalinate ed affreschi, e, dalla parte opposta del giardino all'italiana, l'emiciclo del Kaffeehaus, è una sublime testimonianza del gusto settecentesco per cui Roma era divenuta meta privilegiata del Grand Tour, il cuore della vita (...)

Luxury, lake views, and the art of living well make this magical place a unique, iconic, and evocative destination that fills the eyes and inspires the mind. The location of the earthly Paradise has never been established with certainty but it could truly be around here. Herb CaenHome to the (...)

After inheriting a seventeenth-century Tuscan villa, Ned Lambton and his wife, Marina, lovingly restored the estate as a retreat for family and friends. With newly commissioned photographs by Simon Upton, Lambton brings to life the rich history of the villa, its redecoration, its raucous history, (...)

The history and art of one of the most important suburban aristocratic residences of the 16th century, among the oldest and most beautiful in the AlpsIllustrated by spectacular images, which are the result of a special photographic campaign conducted by Massimo Listri, this volume documents the (...)