Villa Lante al Gianicolo
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Villa Lante al Gianicolo is a villa in Rome on the Janiculum Hill. It is a summer house designed by Giulio Romano in 1520-21 for Baldassare Turini, as one of Romano's first independent commissions aft
View of Villa Lante, entrance facade
The loggia side from Trastevere below
The view from the loggia
Interior view
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A gutta is a small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used near the top of the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture. At the top of the architrave blocks, a row of six guttae be
Villa Lante al Gianicolo
…by arches above the entablature. Romano's willingness to play with the conventions of the classical orders is already in evidence; the Doric here has guttae but no triglyphs on its narrow entablature. The volutes of the Ionic capitals of the entrance facade are repeated in the window surrounds between them…
Labelled image of the Doric order entablature
So-called "Temple of Poseidon", Paestum, Italy.
Theater of Marcellus: cone-shaped guttae pictured below the triglyph in the Doric order.
Villa Lante al Gianicolo, guttae but no triglphs. Giulio Romano, 1520–21.