Villa as Hegemonic Architecture

* Book: The villa as hegemonic architecture. Reinhard Bentmann and Michael Müller. Humanities Press, 1992

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Contents

1. The Dream of the Countryside: The Flight from Venice in the Sixteenth Century 1

2. The Economic Background of Migration from the City 6

3. The Political Basis for the Villeggiatura and the Settlement of Land in the Terraferma 11

4. The Settlement of the Countryside and the Idealization of Agriculture as the Economic and Ideological Foundation of the Villeggiatura 14

5. Alvise Cornaro as Symbolic Figure 18

6. The Relationship between the City and the Country as a Conflict of Authority: The Social and Psychological Background of the Villeggiatura 21

7. The Social and Religious Authority Principle 25

8. Andrea Palladio: The Aesthetic Rationalization of "Irrational Order" in the Countryside 27

9. "Roma qvanta fvit ipsa rvina docet." The Ideal Ruins: Landscape as a Decoration for the Villa 37

10. Architectural and Social Ideal: The Ideal State, the Ideal City, the Ideal Villa, the Villa as Social Model 50

11. The Villa as "Negative Utopia": History as Ideology in the Works of Francesco Colonna, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Tommaso Campanella 59

12. The Villa as "Earthly Paradise" in the Writings of Francesco Petrarch and Antonio Francesco Doni 69

13. A Fresco in the Villa Maser 85

14. Palladianism and Historicism 90

15. The Villa Ideal as Ideology: The Sito Commodo of the Villa as Luogo Privilegiato; the Villa as Patrician Legitimation 94

16. The Dream of the Country in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Spengler, Tonnies, Riehl, and the Grunderzeit Villa 114

17. Theodor Fontane's "Villa Treibel" 122

18. The Dream of the Countryside as a Timeless Ideology 124

19. Satellite Town and Penthouse 131

20. Further Reflections on the Villa (1971) 139