Villa La Rotonda, Inverigo

The villa was built for himself by the Neoclassical architect Luigi Cagnola, and after his death in 1833, completed by his pupil Francesco Peverelli.

The work is a preening agglomeration of academic quotations, hitched together to create a house that lacks the essence of an era and the passion of any specific style.

The entrance has a colonnaded ancient Greek propylaea, behind which is a square block with a turret-like dome (an array recalling Villa Capra "La Rotonda" of Palladio), with the garden facade resembling a rusticated Tuscan palace, while on the hill below is a terraced porch with telamons sculpted by Pompeo Marchesi.

[1][2] A chapel in the villa contains the cenotaph of Luigi Cagnola, a work by Francesco Somaini.

It continues to serve as "Santa Maria alla Rotonda", a facility for disabled children.