A practical, complete guide for visitors to Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, a monumental complex without rivals in the classical artistic panorama.
English edition.
A practical, complete guide for those wishing to explore the monumental complex built by the Emperor Hadrian in 118 AC as a government palace and vacation residence.
After a short historical profile of the Roman emperor, the volume examines the spaces and buildings of the residence, built over an earlier Republican-era villa from the 2nd century BC and capable of containing many sculptures, now exhibited in different museums in Italy and abroad.
Hadrian’s Villa lives on as vivid evidence of the taste and skill of the Romans.
English edition.