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MacDonald, William L.; Pinto, John A.

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Acknowledgments

William L. MacDonald, John A. Pinto

Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy

Acknowledgments

Author

William L. MacDonald, John A. Pinto

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00061.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13801

Acknowledgments

For permission to work at the Villa we are indebted to Maria Luisa Veloccia Rinaldi, Soprintendente ai Beni Archeologici per il Lazio; for cheerful assistance at the site we are grateful to Adriano D’Offizi, Villa caposervizio. Our work was supported by the American Academy in Rome, Dumbarton Oaks, the Getty Center for the Fine Arts and the Humanities, and the Spears Fund of the Princeton Department of Art and Archaeology. To the architect Michael Lawrence, our Decrianus, we owe both thirty-one drawings and many constructive suggestions.

Guy P. R. Métraux read a draft of the entire text, and we have profited greatly from his corrections and suggestions. Others kindly read and commented on chapters and sections: Mary T. Boatwright, Bruce Boucher, Brendan Cassidy, Allan Ceen, David Coffin, Joseph Connors, Sterling Dow, Carolyn Kolb, Ramsay MacMullen, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and John Wilton-Ely. For topical assistance we thank Herbert Benario (help with the Historia Augusta); Herbert Bloch (sound advice); Michael Clark (translations from the German); Martin Kleibrink (communion at the site); Phyllis W. Lehmann (for calling our attention to the late Karl Lehmann’s folder of Villa notes); Lucilla Marino (Librarian of the American Academy); Robert Mangurian, Mary-Ann Ray, and George Newburn (discussions at the Villa and in California about their Villa project—measuring and surveying the entire site); and the architect Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti (conversations about matters of mutual interest). Help generously given by others is acknowledged in the notes and illustration credits. And we recall with pleasure the company, over the years, of Meg Pinto, Allan Ceen, Frank Brown, Ferdinando Castagnoli, and Norman Neuerburg on the High Ground and in the Underground Galleries.

The plans and drawings are on the whole only general guides to the site and its buildings. Dates are A.D. unless otherwise indicated. Measurements in feet refer to the Roman unit of 0.296 meters.

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BOOKHadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy

William L. MacDonald, John A. Pinto

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00061

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13799

The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. The inspiration for major developments in villa and landscape design from the Renaissance onward, it also influenced such eminent twentieth-century architects as Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. In this beautiful book, two distinguished architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and artists up to the present day.

William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto begin by evaluating the numerous buildings comprising the complex, and then describe the art, decorated surfaces, gardens, waterworks, and life at the Villa. The authors then turn to the ways the Villa influenced writers, artists, architects, and landscape designers from the fifteenth century to the present. They discuss, for example, Piranesi's archaeological, architectural, and graphic Villa studies in the eighteenth century; connections between Hadrian's Villa and the English landscape garden; the array of European verbal and artistic depictions of the Villa; and architectural studies of the Villa by twentieth-century Americans.

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William L. MacDonald, John A. Pinto

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date June 1995 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300053814

EISBN 9780300222067

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