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Lot Essay
An attractive fully finished plan for the Gardens of the Castello Stupinigi, showing layout of various stables with accommodation for over 300 horses, the formal house and wings, parterres, incorporating asparagus and acanthus planting designs, cottage gardens, orchards, fishponds, hydraulics and fields.
The palatial Piedmont hunting lodge of Stupinigi, with its magnificent courtyards and gardens, was commissioned in the 1720s by Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, later King of Sardinia, and designed by the Rome-trained Sicilian architect Filippo Juvarra (d.1736). Following Juvarra'’s departure for Madrid in 1731, the building work was supervised during the following decades by the architect Tommaso Prunotto.
The palatial Piedmont hunting lodge of Stupinigi, with its magnificent courtyards and gardens, was commissioned in the 1720s by Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, later King of Sardinia, and designed by the Rome-trained Sicilian architect Filippo Juvarra (d.1736). Following Juvarra'’s departure for Madrid in 1731, the building work was supervised during the following decades by the architect Tommaso Prunotto.