Villa Celimontana
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The Villa Celimontana is a villa on the Caelian Hill in Rome, best known for its gardens. Its grounds cover most of the valley between the Aventine Hill and the Caelian.
Entrance, photographed from inside the park
The Herm of Socrates and Seneca, found in the Villa's grounds (Pergamonmuseum)
Villa Celimontana from the south
View of the gardens of the Villa Mattei, print by Jean-Claude Richard from a painting by Hubert Robert, 1761
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau was the youngest child of King William I of the Netherlands and Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia.
Villa Celimontana
…rapidly – in 1813 it was acquired by prince Manuel de Godoy, prince of La Paz and minister of Charles IV of Spain. The villa was then taken over by Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (daughter of William I of the Netherlands), then by Frederica (princess of Prussia and of Bauffremont) in 1857, and finally by the Bavarian baron Richard…
Portrait, 1834
Princess Marianne, 1811
Queen Wilhelmine of the Netherlands with her daughter Princess Marianne, ca. 1815
Prince Albert of Prussia and Princess Marianne