Villa della Regina Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

- FINE ART PRINTS - Canvas: Canson Museum Pro Canvas 385 g/m2 100% cotton - Printed: HP Z9 + DreamColor mineral pigment. - Paper prints (direct contact via email): Premium Hahnemuhle RAG 308 100% cotton paper - Printed: HP Z9 + DreamColor mineral pigment. - Made in Brazil It was designed around 1615 by the Orvieto architect Ascanio Vitozzi, designer of the Royal Palace of Turin, who died in the same year. The villa, originally conceived as a sumptuous country residence with adjacent vineyards, was then built by architects Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte (father and son) commissioned by Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy, second son of Duke Carlo Emanuele I and brother of Duke Vittorio Amedeo . I. The cardinal was a man of great culture, who later renounced the cardinal's purple to live in this villa with his niece Ludovica (or Luísa Cristina) of Savoy, who in 1642, at the age of 13 (she was forty-nine), she became his wife. It was therefore initially called Villa Ludovica and in one of its pavilions Cardinal Maurizio used to organize erudite meetings of academics, scientists and intellectuals. This hall, which included the Savoyard historian Emanuele Tesauro and the future Pope Innocent Maurice of Savoy and his wife died in this villa, in 1657 and 1692, respectively.