Abstract

This study attempts to establish the extent to which a painting by Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo of the villa Poggioreale as an architectural capriccio can be used as a record of the appearance of the villa in the mid-17th century. By correlating the painting with the plan of the villa in the Carafa map and the Baratta view, a new reconstruction of the layout of the villa garden is proposed.