With photographs, paintings and unpublished drawings, the exhibition throws light on the figure and works of Sophie Browne (1866-1960).

A composite artist, Sophie Browne is particularly remembered as the designer, along with her husband Marquis Silvio della Valle di Casanova, of the splendid garden situated on the Castagnola hill, set within the landscape of the lake that both had enjoyed since childhood.

Sophie’s paintings, or those that depict her, the drawings of decorative elements designed by Sophie for the house or surrounding garden, the period photographs, capture certain instants of her hard-working cultural world which was open to outside contacts and full of social relationships; they are a precious testimony to an eclectic artistic style whose value we can still recognize today and not just in terms of  garden history.

Free entrance

Inauguration
Villa Giulia, Saturday 20 September, 10 am