ID: 700001291 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001291	Record Type: Built Work

Villa Benedetta (villa; Plautilla Bricci (Italian architect and painter, 1616-after1...; construction 1663-1665)

Note: Elpidio Benedetti built a villa for himself outside Porta S Pancrazio on the Janiculum Hill, called the Villa Benedetti or ‘del Vascello’. According to Benedetti, the architect was Basilio Bricci (1621-1892), assisted by his sister, but documentation reveals that Plautilla Bricci was responsible for the design.The building was completed ca.1665, but was destroyed in the Siege of Rome, 1849. Benedetti published an illustrated account of the villa's construction under the assumed name of Matteo Mayer.

Titles:

Villa Benedetta (preferred,C,U,Italian-P,U,N,English-P,L,N)

Villa Benedetti (C,U,Italian,U,U,English,L,U)

Villa del Vascello (C,U,Italian,U,U,English,L,U)

Villa Benedeta al Gianicolo (Rome) (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

villa [300005517] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, residential structures, dwellings, houses, <houses by location or context>, <houses by location: settlement area>, rural houses, country houses)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: construction 1663-1665

Creator Display:

Plautilla Bricci (Italian architect and painter, 1616-after1690); commissioned by Elpidio Benedetti (Italian clergyman, patron, and architectural draftsman, 1610-1690) [preferred,VP]

architect Bricci, Plautilla (Italian architect and painter, 1616-after1690) [500314928]

commissioner (person who orders works) Benedetti, Elpidio (Italian clergyman, patron, and architectural draftsman, 1610-1690) [500072529]

Locations:

Other: Destroyed: Roma [7003138] Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: unavailable

Dimensions: unavailable

Events:

destruction: 1849

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: residential structures

Sources and Contributors:
Villa Benedetta	........ [VP]
	........ Mayer, Villa Benedetta (1677)
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-) "Benedetti, Elpidio"; accessed 21 June 2016
Villa Benedetti	........ [VP]
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-) "Benedetti, Elpidio"; accessed 21 June 2016
Villa del Vascello	........ [VP]
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-) "Benedetti, Elpidio"; accessed 21 June 2016
Villa Benedeta al Gianicolo (Rome)	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Grove Art Online (2008-) "Benedetti, Elpidio"; accessed 21 June 2016