1920/25 and
1932/38 Armando Brasini (1879/1965)
Known as Castellaccio Brasini (The Ugly Brasini
Castle) after the name of the builder and owner
Curious
eclectic architecture, with medieval and seventeenth century quotations
"Despite
having worked during the period at the beginning of the modern movement, Brasini
has always been inspired, in his architecture, by the art of the past,
especially Baroque and Renaissance art, mixing styles, sometimes fancifully,
and preferring grandiose and monumental concepts, in order to latch on to the
courtly Italian and especially Roman artistic tradition. His vast production
reveals exceptional ease and graphical richness, as well as an attitude more of
a stage designer than of an architect, in a style that can be referred to as
eclectic although still bearing, very evident, the imprint of his personality"
(Raffo Pani – Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani)
NYMPHAEUM
and COLLECTION OF INSCRIPTIONS with items dating back to antiquity and to the
renaissance period, found during the demolition of the center of Rome during
the fascist period
Authentic
sculptures of the fifteenth century and ceilings of the sixteenth and
seventeenth century
Armando
Brasini also used materials from the Italian pavilion of the Universal
Exhibition in Paris of 1925 that he designed himself
It is also
known as Villa del Pianto (Wailing
Villa) because, during the war, it was a Gestapo headquarters, where prisoners were
interrogated and executed
It is said
that Armando Brasini was spared from the fury of the Nazis because he revealed
them a secret: how to recover a precious vessel, without breaking it, under the
floor where it had been buried
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