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2. Italian Renaissance garden - Wikipedia

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   Gardens of the Villa Aldobrandini (1598). The Italian Renaissance garden was a new style of garden which emerged in the late 15th century at villas in Rome and Florence, inspired by classical ideals of order and beauty, and intended for the pleasure of the view of the garden and the landscape beyond, for contemplation, and for the enjoyment of the sights, sounds and smells of the garden itself.

3. Italian Renaissance interior design - Wikipedia

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   Much furniture was also relatively grotesque (a French variation of the Italian word grottesco), often creating sculpted odd-looking gargoyles and monsters to make these items seem more amusing. Caryatids became popular at the time, and were made out of marble (the rich people used them as legs to their dining tables).

4. List of Italian painters - Wikipedia

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   Marco Antonio Bassetti (1586–1630) Cesare Bassano (1584–1648) Francesco da Ponte the 1st Bassano (c. 1475–1530) Francesco Bassano the Younger (1549–1592) Jacopo Bassano (1510–1592) Leandro Bassano (1557–1622) Lazzaro Bastiani (1429–1512) Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) Domenico Beccafumi (1486–1551)

5. Matteo Tassi - Wikipedia

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   Matteo Tassi (October 6, 1831 in Perugia – 1895) was an Italian painter, best known for his decorative frescoes and restorations. Biography. His first studies were in his native Academy, then he moved to Rome to study perspective and decoration under professor Annibale Angelini at the Accademia di San Luca.

6. Still life - Wikipedia

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   The French aristocracy employed artists to execute paintings of bounteous and extravagant still-life subjects that graced their dining table, also without the moralistic vanitas message of their Dutch predecessors. The Rococo love of artifice led to a rise in appreciation in France for trompe-l'œil (French: "trick the eye") painting.

7. Credenza - Wikipedia

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   A credenza is a dining room sideboard or display cabinet, [ 1][ 2] usually made of burnished and polished wood and decorated with marquetry. The top would often be made of marble, or another decorative liquid- and heat-resistant stone. The credenza started as a rough table with a cloth draped over it. In early 14th-century Italy, it took on an ...

8. Cuneo Museum - Wikipedia

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   Cuneo Museum. The Cuneo Mansion and Gardens are a historic home, art collection and gardens in Vernon Hills, Illinois, built in 1914 and designed by architect Benjamin Marshall of Marshall & Fox. The mansion's first owner was Samuel Insull, an original founder of the General Electric Company. John Cuneo, Sr. purchased the mansion in 1937 after ...

9. Surtout de table - Wikipedia

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   A surtout de table is an ornamental centrepiece displayed on a formal dining table, "a large centerpiece with mirrored plateaus and numerous candelabra and other possible display pieces on top". [1] In French surtout de table is the usual term for any type of centrepiece, but in English this "tray" type, along with the objects placed on it, is ...