* Some studies propose that the Villa Medici in Fiesole might owe its design to Alberti, not to Michelozzo, and that it then became the prototype of the Renaissance villa.

Alternatively, they might purchase a single-family villa with a small yard at the back.

A third type of villa provided the organizational center of the large holdings called latifundia, that produced and exported agricultural produce ; such villas might be lacking in luxuries.

Other rooms in the villa might include an office, a temple for worship, several bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen.

Concerned that the " Milan commission " might threaten Caroline, he sent his brother James to Caroline's villa in the hope of establishing whether George had any grounds for divorce.

Humbert accepts that the site might have been originally established as a villa rustica, but that the site was abandoned, and was reoccupied by Essenes in the late 1st century BCE.

Within the atrium of a Roman house or villa, a place that had formerly been quite plain, the art of the topiarius produced a miniature landscape ( topos ) which might employ the art of stunting trees, also mentioned, disapprovingly, by Pliny ( Historia Naturalis xii. 6 ).

A contested theory has been put forward that a military brothel might have formed part of the Yeweden villa site.

In Colombia they are called invasiones ( as in " invading a property ", as squatting can be related to a building or an empty lot ), in Venezuela they are also known as invasiones, in Argentina the term used is villa miseria, in Chile they are called Tomas, and in Uruguay, cantegriles.

The villa was added to the French register of historical monuments in 1965, becoming the first modernist building designated as historical monument in France, and also the first to be the object of renovation while its architect was still living.

According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome ( or another city ) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.

The villa fructuaria would be the storage rooms. These would be where the products of the farm were stored ready for transport to buyers.

Even incomplete, it was the most sophisticated villa design yet seen in Italy, and greatly influenced the later development of the genre ; it appears to be the only modern building in Rome of which Palladio made a measured drawing.

He suggested that the villa milieu would be kept, but that the number of inhabitants would be significantly raised, from 2, 500 to 10, 000, and that the unmodern villas would be replaced by new ones.

In October 2005 Professor Harold V. Livermore ( 1914 – 2010 ), its owner for 60 years, gave Sandycombe Lodge, the villa at Twickenham which Turner designed and built for himself, to the Sandycombe Lodge Trust to be preserved as a monument to the artist.

When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 ( see Francis II of the Two Sicilies ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the island, built a villa, reopened the local mines and planted vineyards for grapes that would later be used to make Malmsey wine.

His next project was to record a live album at his Tuscan villa, which was to be released as a CD and DVD, as well as being simulcast in its entirety on the internet.

It was one of the first London suburbs to be developed with a large amount of low density " villa " housing, as opposed to the terraced housing which was the norm in London up to the 19th century, even in expensive districts.

If the hall was the atrium of the villa, then the adjoining saloon was to be the vestibulum.

* In Steenwijk the villa " Ramswoerthe ", built in 1899 in Jugendstil architecture, and its park can be visited.

There used to be a Roman villa on that spot.

Burlington's use of Roman sources can be viewed in the steep-pitched dome of the villa which is derived from the Pantheon in Rome.

Palladio's influence can also be found in the general cubic form of the villa with its central hall with other rooms leading off its axis.

In his villa here, Theoduadum palatium, Louis the Pious was informed of the death of his father Charlemagne in 814 and hurried to Aachen to be crowned.

Thomas Attree's villa, Queen's Park, Brighton, the only one to be built of a series of villa's designed for the area by Barry and the Pepper Pot ( 1830 ), whose original function was a water tower for the development.

At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state, and they had to be renovated in order to house the winners of the Prix de Rome.

Newport is home to a large extent of different sports clubs, playing at all different levels of professionalism and covering all different sports, with all the main sports in the UK catered for in and around the town, with football, cricket, bowls and archery located in the Granville avenue / Audley avenue area of the town, surrounding Audley villa which was once the club house of Newport horse racing course, floodlit tennis courts are located in the High street, rugby is at top of Forton road, swimming and fishing located by Victoria park and most else can be catered for at Lillishall hall which is a national sports centre

While Hideyoshi's reason may never be known for certain, it is known that Rikyū committed seppuku at his residence within Hideyoshi's Jurakudai villa in Kyoto in 1591 on the 28th day of the 2nd month ( of the traditional Japanese lunar calendar ; or April 21 when calculated according to the modern Gregorian calendar ), at the age of seventy.

A walk in the shrubbery offered a chance for a private conversation, and a winding walk among shrubs surrounding even quite a small lawn was a feature of the garden behind a well-furnished Regency suburban villa.

The villa was sold in 1948, with The Watchtower declaring, " It had fully served its purpose and was now only serving as a monument quite expensive to keep.

They strike up a conversation, and Mary learns that he is a 23 year-old Austrian art student who has recently fled the country because he was being persecuted by the Nazis, and now, without a passport or any other documents, is staying as an illegal immigrant in a shabby rented room at the foot of the hill quite close to the Leonards ' villa.

The even more palatial villa rustica at Fishbourne near Winchester was built uncharacteristically as a large open rectangle with porticos enclosing gardens that was entered through a portico.

Towards the end of the 3rd century, Roman towns in Britain ceased to expand: like patricians near the centre of the empire, Roman Britons withdrew from the cities to their villas, which entered on a palatial building phase, a " golden age " of villa life.

German architect Johannes Schultz ( 1876 – 1883 ) won the project by presenting a more original plan, something that appealed to the King's taste: a grand palatial alpine villa combining different features of classic European styles, mostly following Italian elegance and German aesthetics along Renaissance lines.

From 1550 until his death in 1572, when the villa was nearing completion, Cardinal d ' Este created a palatial setting surrounded by a spectacular terraced garden in the late-Renaissance mannerist style, which took advantage of the dramatic slope but required innovations in bringing a sufficient water supply, which was employed in cascades, water tanks, troughs and pools, water jets and fountains, giochi d ' acqua.

In 1929, the school bought Cannons, a modest villa on the site of a palatial residence originally built in the early 18th century by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, and relocated to the property in 1940.

The villa is situated at a very secluded spot on the island and Tiberius's quarters in the north and east of the palatial villa were particularly difficult to reach and heavily guarded.

Wallace's devotion led him to remain in his Parisian villa even as the city was besieged, rather than take refuge on one of his palatial estates, to be in Paris when he was needed.

On returning to Jyväskylä in 1923 to establish his own architect's office, Aalto busied himself with a number of single-family homes, all designed in the classical style, such as the manor-like house for his mother's cousin Terho Manner in Töysa in 1923, a summer villa for the Jyväskylä chief constable in 1923 and the Alatalo farmhouse in Tarvaala in 1924.

Libraries were amenities suited to a villa, such as Cicero's at Tusculum, Maecenas's several villas, or Pliny the Younger's, all described in surviving letters.

A mark of such newly-settled conditions in the Duchy of Rome is the Domusculta Capracorum, the central Roman villa that Adrian assembled from a nucleus of his inherited estates and acquisitions from neighbors in the countryside north of Veii.

A possible practical reason for building such a solid residence rather than an Italianate-style villa was to provide shelter from the adverse weather conditions which could affect the Cheshire plain.

These early suburban villas, such as the one at Rome's Auditorium site or at Grottarossa in Rome, demonstrate the antiquity and heritage of the villa suburbana in Central Italy.

Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic works, such as the Apollo and the Faun With the Transverse Flute, and a spa.

Mahmud Karzai bought one such villa from Farnood for 7 million dirhams using money borrowed from Kabul Bank and in a matter of months sold it for 10. 4 million dirhams.

In 1997, the remains of a Roman villa were also discovered containing several well preserved rooms with frescoes and mosaics in a condition rarely found outside sites such as Pompei.

After completion of the villa in 1729, Burlington later provided inspiration to other architects for numerous other buildings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the " Egyptian Hall " for its columns.

There are also villas, particularly in the city's villa districts such as Kamienna Góra where Historicism inspired Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque architecture.

There are also villas, particularly in the city's villa districts such as Kamienna Góra where Historicism inspired Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque architecture.

There were no paintings or decorative items in the villa but the interior was by no means austere due to the use of naturally patterned materials such as the captivating onyx wall and rare tropical woods.

* Abbot Hall Art Gallery ( housed in a Georgian villa, it mounts nationally important exhibitions, such as David Bomberg: Spirit in the Mass ( 17 July-28 October 2006 ).

Communities such as Montecito, Bradbury, Bel Air, and San Marino in Southern California, and Atherton and Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area are a few examples of villa density.

Keynsham Clock TowerEvidence of occupation dates back to prehistoric times, and the town site is scattered with Roman remains, such as the Roman villas at Somerdale which were discovered during the construction of the factory in 1922, and included the discovery of two stone coffins, a villa with nine intact panels of mosaic flooring at Durley Hill and a burial site between Keynsham and Saltford.

This is evident from the archaeological sites found throughout the municipality, such as the Roman villa of La Llosa, strategically located alongside the Via Augusta and not far from the Roman capital of Tarraco.

Acton passed to Suarez, who went four or five days a week to the villa, some of the formal Renaissance garden ideals that were being revived in the late nineteenth century by designers such as Achille Duchêne.

In such surroundings, enriched by monuments, artefacts ( amongst which a Venetian gondola transported to Bellagio, expressly desired by Napoleon, and two precious Egyptian statues ), rare exotic plants, secular trees, hedges of camellias, groves of azaleas and gigantic rhododendrons, the villa, the chapel and the glass house constitute an extraordinary ensemble in which the neoclassical style reaches one of the highest peaks.

Evidence of a villa was found during construction of council houses on Windmill Hill at the west end of the village in the 1930s, along with remains of a kiln nearby, and smaller artefacts such as coins and tiles.

Several incidents such as Rosemary's arrival and early scenes on the beach, her visit to the Riviera movie studio, and the dinner party at the Divers ' villa, all appeared in this original version, but with Francis in the role of the wide-eyed outsider that would later be filled by Rosemary.

Hence, another room in the villa is called the Room of the Arts, featuring frescoes with allegories of individual arts, such as astronomy, poetry or music.

The visual focus of the entire complex was centred precisely on the dominant axis of the great triangular pediment supported by Ionic columns, which bears the family arms, such that the villa ’ s flanks and rear are absolutely unarticulated and present a simply utilitarian aspect.

At the Medici villa, La Petraia, inner and outer curving segments of such green walks, the forerunners of pergolas, give structure to the pattern, which can be viewed from the long terrace above it, and provide rare privacy in a teeming household, offering to those walking within it leafy glimpses into an orderly paradise, a formally-planted enclosed orchard that consciously recalled the Garden of Eden before Adam's Fall.