The following Images are taken from
Mignonette Yin Cheng, Watercolors of Italy,
University of Michigan Press,
Ann Arbor 1996

Copyright © 1996

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A few images pertaining to Villa Corsi Salviati are offered below with the permission of the Artist.

The watercolors are reproduced here in miniature edition. In order to fully appreciate and enjoy the essence of places and things captured by the brush of Mignonette Yin Cheng, we recommend that you see the images as they appear in her exquisitely illustrated book.

 

Mignonette Yin Cheng, Partial View of Villa Corsi Salviati. Watercolor, 1992



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, A View of a Villa Turret and a Palm Tree. Watercolor, n. d.



Mignonette Yin Cheng -Villa Corsi Salviati, Grden, Lemon Tree in a Large Terracotta Vase. Watercolor, 1992




Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, Garden, a View of Statues , Garden Wall and Iron Gate (Detail). Watercolr, 1992



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, Garden, A View of a Triangular Flower-bed (Detail). Watercolor, 1992.



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, View of the Western Aviary (Detail from "Wisteria II"). Watercolor, 1994



Mignonette Cheng, Villa Corsi Salviati. Loggia del Bacchino Reflecting on the Water of the Vasca Lunga - Watercolor, 1994



Mognonette Yin Cheng, Garden of Villa Corsi Salviati - The Fountain of the Eagle. Watercolor ,1992



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, View of the Western Aviary and Door of the Old Limonaia. Watercolor, 1994.



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, View of the Loggia del Bacchino, Wall with Flowering Wisteria and Chapel Belltower. Watercolor, 1994



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, View of a Window with Blue Towel in the Western Courtyard. Watercolor, 1993



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, From a Northern Window of the Piano Nobile, a View of Windows in the Western Courtyard. Watercolor, 1994



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, A View from a Shattered Doorway. Watercolor, 1993



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, A View of Windows and Roof from a Window with Lemons. Watercolor, n.d.



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, "in the Loggia: Reflections and Fresco", 1994
This image is best seen in the two following details



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, Fresco in the Loggia del Bacchino with Sarcophagus (detail). Watercolor, 1994



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, Reflections of the Fresco in the Loggia del Bacchino and of the Artist at Work (Detail). Watercolor, 1994



Mignonette Yin Cheng - Villa Corsi Salviati, Partial Reflections of the Fresco in the Bacchino Loggia with "Self-Portrait" of the Artist at Work (Enlarged Detail). Watercolor, 1994
The Artist at Work
(Enlargement of part of previous image)

END OF IMAGES
Villa Corsi Salviati - Garden. Wrought iron railing over a small bridge
Villa Corsi Salviati - Florence Program Campus

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