Movie Details
Original Language:Italian
Production Companies:MiC, ROADMOVIE srl, Moovie, Giardino22, TADV2studio
Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta on the Web:Official Website
Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta
1 hr 29 minHistory,
Documentary
The film richly illustrates the history of one of the most famous and lavish Italian pleasure villas, located in the town of Lainate in Lombardy, not far from Milan. Using onsite documentation, costumed reenactments, interviews with prominent curators and historians, architectural models, and computer graphics, Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta portrays centuries of Italian art and architectural history in terms of stylistic expression. The film also explores the social, familial, and political milieux—not least of which is the chronicle of Pirro I Visconti Borromeo, count of Brebbia, the creator of this place of art and delights, a romantic, a patron, and a sophisticated man of culture in Milan during the late sixteenth century. The villa’s wonders are many—its famous Nymphaeum, greenhouses, palaces, sculptures, frescoes, fountains, and water features among them.
DirectorFrancesco Vitali
WriterAlessandro Morandotti
