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ANTIQUARIANISM AND THE VILLA PAMPHILJ ON THE JANICULUM HILL IN ROME

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Susan Russell
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The Janiculum Hill in antiquity was a place of noble villas, military triumphs, ancient burials and Christian martyrdoms, all of which were recorded and interpreted in various ways in the antiquarian maps and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Many of its associations had significance to the Pamphilj family, who bought a modest vigna there in 1630, not long after Giovan Battista Pamphilj (1574–1655) became cardinal. In the fourteen years that separated the purchase of the vigna and the elevation of Cardinal Pamphilj to the papal throne as Innocent X (1644–55) more land was acquired in the area, and the Casino del Bel Respiro, the Pamphilj's palazzo di rappresentanza at the Villa Pamphilj, was eventually built some distance from the original farmhouse, its entrance directly facing the dome of Saint Peter's. The villa played an essential role in constructing a public image for the Pamphilj that was inseparable from their claims to descend from the very founders of Rome, claims that were delineated by Niccolò Angelo Cafferri in his genealogy of the Pamphilj, a work initiated by Cardinal Girolamo Pamphilj (1544–1610) and published in 1662. This paper discusses how Cafferri's genealogy and antiquarian scholarship in Rome contributed to the selection of the Casino's site, design, decoration and iconology.

Il Gianicolo in antico era un luogo di ville nobiliari, trionfi militari, antiche sepolture e martiri cristiani. Tutti questi elementi sono stati registrati e interpretati in molti modi nelle mappe antiquarie e nelle fonti del XVI e XVII secolo. Molte di queste associazioni avevano un significato per la famiglia Pamphilj, che comperò una modesta vigna sul Gianicolo nel 1630, non molto dopo che Giovan Battista Pamphilj (1574–1655) divenne cardinale. Nei quattordici anni che separano l'acquisto della vigna dall'ascensione al soglio pontificio del Cardinal Pamphilj come Innocenzo X (1644–55) vennero acquistati ulteriori terreni nell'area, e fu infine costruito il Casino del Bel Respiro, il palazzo di rappresentanza dei Pamphilj presso la Villa Pamphilj, a una certa distanza dalla originale casa colonica e con l'ingresso direttamente rivolto verso la cupola di San Pietro. La villa giocò un ruolo fondamentale nella costruzione di un'immagine pubblica dei Pamphilj, indissolubilmente legata alla loro pretesa discendenza dai fondatori di Roma, pretesa che venne illustrata da Niccolò Angelo Cafferri nella sua genealogia dei Pamphilj, un lavoro iniziato dal Cardinal Girolamo Pamphilj (1544–1610) e pubblicato nel 1662. Questo articolo tratta di come la genealogia di Cafferri e l'antiquaria erudita a Roma contribuì a selezionare il luogo, la progettazione, la decorazione e l'iconologia del Casino.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 82 , October 2014 , pp. 237 - 264
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43 It was, of course, not a new idea to construct a contemporary villa on an ancient site, and here the Pamphilj were following a well-established custom. At Frascati in the late sixteenth century new villas, occupying similar sites to those of ancient Tusculum, proliferated. See, for example: Ehrlich, T.L., Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era (Cambridge, 2002)Google Scholar; Tantillo, A. Mignosi (ed.), Villa e paese: dimore nobili del Tuscolo e di Marino: mostra documentaria, Roma, Museo di Palazzo Venezia, marzo–maggio, 1980 (Rome, 1980)Google Scholar.

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61 Bruun, ‘Frontinus, Pope Paul V’ (above, n. 58), 301–2; Ashby, The Aqueducts of Ancient Rome (above, n. 55), 183–9.

62 It is worth noting that the original source that assisted Fabretti to identify the Acqua Traiana was a lead pipe stamp recorded by Ligorio but which, like so many of his archaeological records, was dismissed as a forgery in the nineteenth century; Bruun, ‘Frontinus, Pope Paul V’ (above, n. 58), 311–12.

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64 Throughout Innocent's pontificate a series of concessions of water from the Acqua Paola were made, reaching a total of 37 oncie in July 1650, when Donna Olimpia was granted four oncie; Fea, C., Storia: 1. Delle acque antiche sorgenti in Roma, perdute, e modo di ristabilirle, 2. Dei condotti antico-moderni delle acque, Vergine, Felice, e Paola, e loro autori (Rome, 1832), 149Google Scholar. In 1659, four years after Innocent's death, the villa was still operating on a total of 37 oncie of water, which accommodated new fountains built under Algardi's supervision at the Casino del Bel Respiro: the Venus fountain, the Rustic grotto and the Esedra, as well as two large pools that occupied the Giardino Segreto; Benocci, ‘L'acquedotto Traiano Paolo’ (above, n. 1), 232.

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67 New Catholic Encyclopedia XIV (Palatine (IL), c. 1967–79), 312Google Scholar. In 1645 the Dominicans in Antwerp celebrated Innocent as head of the Church Militant in an engraving, De Militante Ecclesia et Triumphante by Sallarts, A. and Iode, P. De: Innocenti X Pontificis Maximi Columba Emens Militans Ecclesia (Antwerp, 1645), 40Google Scholar. Camillo was General of the Church, and also Generale delle Galere, a position that he held until his marriage in 1647; ADP Archiviolo 109: 242; ADP Archiviolo 117: 212.

68 Frutaz, Le piante di Roma II (above, n. 39), pianta XVI, tav. 25 (Ligorio 1553); pianta XVII (5), tav. 31 (Ligorio 1561).

69 Frutaz, Le piante di Roma II (above, n. 39), pianta XXII, tav. 37 (Du Pérac); pianta XXIII (3), tav. 54 (Cartaro); pianta XXVII (1), tav. 60 (Lauro). See Marshall, D.R., ‘Piranesi, Juvarra and the triumphal bridge tradition’, Art Bulletin 85 (2003), 321–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar, for a discussion of the significance of the Via Triumphalis in antiquarian maps.

70 Lauro, G., Antiquae Urbis Splendor: hoc est Praecipua eiusdem Templa, Amphitheatra, Theatra, Circi, Naumachiae, Arcus Triumphales, Mausolea aliaque Sumptuosiora Aedificia, Pompae Item Triumphalis et Colossaearum Imaginum Descriptio / Opera & Industria Iacobi Lauri Romani in aes Incisa atque in Lucem Edita (Rome, 1612)Google Scholar, plate 29; ADP Archiviolo 106: 356r. David Marshall pointed out that the idea of a triumphal bridge was largely a sixteenth-century invention, and that the Via Triumphalis does not appear on any of the Regional Maps or the marble map of Rome; Marshall, ‘Piranesi, Juvarra and the triumphal bridge tradition’ (above, n. 69), 24. However, it was widely believed (as reported by Lauro) that this area of Rome was where generals gathered before a triumph, and that a bridge had existed until the time of Urban V (1362–70); Lauro, Antiquae Urbis Splendor (above), commentary on plate 29; Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 17.

71 Losito, Pirro Ligorio e il Casino di Paolo IV (above, n. 49), 17.

72 Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 21–3, fig. 11.

73 Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 17; Angeloni, La Historia Augusta (above, n. 12), ADP Archiviolo 106: 346v. Joachim Sandrart included several images of coins representing ‘Concordia’ in his Iconologia Deorum (1680), which convey a sense of general, rather than conjugal, harmony, one image showing only the handclasp as two disembodied hands; Sandrart, J. von, Iconologia Deorum, oder Abbildung der Götter, etc. (Frankfurt, 1680)Google Scholar, facing pp. 62, 110.

74 Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 16–17.

75 Benocci, Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 1), 86–101; Lauro, Antiquae Urbis Splendor (above, n. 70).

76 Benocci, Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 1), 86–103, esp. figures on p. 92; Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 43–9.

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S'al Dio Pan tocca la Natura reggere,
E discendi, ò Camillo dai Pamphilij,
Sò, che in Latin non suona altro Pan filij
Che Pan del figlio, ch'usi tu protegere,
Poiche se come figli aiuti i poveri,
E tu Dio Pan del figlio ti cognomini,
Convien, che come Nume il tutto domini,
E che per comun Padre io qui t'annoveri.

Written by the Marchese da Palombara, in Brusoni, Degli allori d'Eurota (above, n. 3), 67. For the significance of Pan in the Sala di Bacco at the Palazzo Pamphilj, see Preimesberger, ‘Pontifex Romanus’ (above, n. 24), 239; Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 54–6. See Calza et al., Le antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 66), tav. CCXLIII, figs 444a and 444b for images of the ‘satirello nudo’.

79 Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 17.

80 Cartari, Imagini delli dei degl'antichi (above, n. 37), 29–30; ADP Archiviolo 106: 343r; Calza et al., Le antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 66), tav. CCXLIII, fig. 447, Apollo con la cetra.

81 Calza et al., Le antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 66), tav. CCXLII, figs 441–3.

82 Benocci, ‘Alessandro Algardi, Camillo Pamphilj e la fontana delle Venere’ (above, n. 1); Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 23; Benocci, Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 1), 117–32.

83 Louis Cellauro considered that the Casino of Pius IV was both a nymphaeum and a musaeum. Cellauro, L., ‘The Casino of Pius IV in the Vatican’, Papers of the British School at Rome 63 (1995), 183–214CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

84 Benocci, Algardi a Roma (above, n. 1), 39–41; Beneš, ‘Claude Lorrain's pendant landscapes’ (above, n. 1).

85 Although much of the original statuary has been removed, these two figures, as well as the free-standing sculptures still in situ, can be identified from the Falda-Barrière views of the villa printed c. 1653–9, published c. 1670; see Catalli, F. and Petrecca, M., Villa Pamphilj (Rome, 1992), 12–13Google Scholar.

86 Cartari, Imagini delli dei degl'antichi (above, n. 37), 45.

87 ADP Archiviolo 106: 348r; Pollio, Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morgan, M.H. (facsimile of 1914 Harvard University Press edition; New York, 1960), 15Google Scholar.

88 See Raggio, O., ‘Alessandro Algardi e gli stucchi di Villa Pamphilj’, Paragone – Arte 251 (1971), 3–38Google Scholar; Benocci, Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 1), 107–14.

89 Calza et al., Le antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 66), tav. CCXLIII, fig. 445; also tav. XIV, fig. 18a, Ercole (?); tav. XV, fig. 20, Ercole (?); tav. XXI, fig. 29, Eracle; tav. XXXIII, fig. 50, Eracle; tav. LXI, fig. 95, Eros con gli attribuiti di Eracle.

90 Davis, M. Daly, ‘L'Ercole della mula; da Palazzo Maggiore a Palazzo Pitti’, in Boboli 90: atti del convegno internazionale di studi per la salvaguardia e la valorizzazione del Giardino I (Florence, 1991), 623–32Google Scholar, esp. p. 630.

91 For Hercules, circuses and circus basilicas, see E. La Rocca, ‘Le basiliche cristiane ‘a deambulatorio’ e la sopravvivenza del culto eroico’, in Ensoli, S. and Rocca, E. La (eds), Aurea Roma dalla città pagana alla città cristiana (Rome, 2000), 204–20Google Scholar.

92 The figure on the left of the arch is predominantly antique, the other, possibly by Algardi, is contemporary, and has been created to reflect the basic characteristics of the original, as they stand in the same pose, in opposition, on either side of the arch; Calza et al., Le antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 66), tav. XVIII, cat. 26, p. 52; tav. CCXXXVII, cat. 428, p. 335.

93 G. Mercuriale, De Arte Gymnastica, first published in Venice in 1569, without illustrations; subsequent editions, with illustrations, appeared in 1573, 1577, 1587, 1601 and 1644. The edition referred to in this paper is the Italian translation published in conjunction with the Rome Olympic Games in 1960; Mercuriale, G., Arte ginnastica, trans. Galante, I. (Rome, 1960)Google Scholar, fig. p. 166; ADP Archiviolo 106: 346v. A new edition, with an English translation, was published on the occasion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics: Mercuriale, G., De Arte Gymnastica (The Art of Gymnastics), edited by Pennuto, G., translated by Nutton, V. (Florence, 2008)Google Scholar.

94 The others are ‘la legittima o medica e la viziosa o atletica’; Mercuriale, Arte ginnastica (above, n. 93), 93–7. For Mercuriale and the Villa Pamphilj, see Russell, S., ‘Girolamo Mercuriale's De Arte Gymnastica and papal health at the Villa Pamphilj, Rome’, in Arcangeli, A. and Nutton, V. (eds), Girolamo Mercuriale. Medicina e cultura nell'Europa del Cinquecento. Atti del convegno ‘Girolamo Mercuriale e lo spazio scientifico e culturale del Cinquecento’ (Forlì, 8–11 novembre 2006) (Florence, 2008), 175–89Google Scholar.

95 Mercuriale, Arte ginnastica (above, n. 93), xxv, 13.

96 Galen and the Arab physician Avicenna both recommended discus throwing as proper to good health and a strong physical constitution; Mercuriale, Arte ginnastica (above, n. 93), 162; Russell, ‘Girolamo Mercuriale's De Arte Gymnastica and papal health’ (above, n. 94), 172–3.

97 These included swimming, fishing, sailing, riding, hunting and walking, all of which could take place at the Villa Pamphilj; Mercuriale, Arte ginnastica (above, n. 93), book III, chapter II: Il Passeggio, 177–81; book III, chapter III: Se lo star in piedi sia un esercizio, 181–6; book III, chapter IX: L'equitazione, 217–20; book III, chapter X: La vettazione su veicolo a ruote, 221–4; book III, chapter XIII: La navigazione e la pesca, 232–6; book III, chapter XIV: Il nuoto, 236–40; book III, chapter XV: La caccia, 240–4; Russell, ‘Girolamo Mercuriale's De Arte Gymnastica and papal health’ (above, n. 94), 185–9.

98 Mercuriale described covered walkways ‘such as those that we admire even today in the Vatican Gardens’, which he considered were based on antique models ‘like those that Pirro Ligorio has seen, in the ruins of two villas of Lucullus, La Tuscolana and that on the hill of Posillipo’ as well as ‘those such as the villa of Pliny at Laurentino and in Tuscany’; Mercuriale, Arte ginnastica (above, n. 93), book III, chapter II, 177–9; Russell, ‘Girolamo Mercuriale's De Arte Gymnastica and papal health’ (above, n. 94), 177. For a discussion of the Villa Pamphilj's architecture in the context of sixteenth-century villa design and ancient Roman reconstructions, see Hoffmann, P., Villa Doria Pamphilj (Rome, 1976), 1–27Google Scholar; Benocci, Villa Doria Pamphilj (above, n. 1), 53–154.