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Park of the Villa d'Este, Carl Blechen, 1830.The overgrown garden appealed to the Romantic imagination; today this same view is once again manicured.. With the death of Ippolito in 1572, the villa and gardens passed to his nephew, Cardinal Luigi (1538–1586), who continued work on some of the unfinished fountains and gardens, but struggled with high maintenance costs.
Villa d'Este, Tivoli Metropolitan City of Rome Capital: 2001 1025; i, ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) The 16th century-gardens of Vila d'Este are one of the first and best examples of Italian Renaissance gardens. The gardens have a geometric layout in line with Renaissance aesthetics and are decorated with pools and fountains, designed by Pirro ...
Villa Farnese, Caprarola: The gardens of the villa are as impressive as the building itself, a significant example of the Italian Renaissance garden period. 1. Italy: Villa Adriana, Tivoli: The remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace. 1. Italy: Villa d'Este, Tivoli: A spectacular Renaissance garden with many ...
Villa d'Este housed religious leaders and local politicians when it was first constructed in the 1500s. A few centuries and renovations later, it turned into a favorite of Hollywood's elite -- and ...
The Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, is a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy, close to the city of Como.Both the villa and the 25-acre (100,000 m 2) park which surrounds it have undergone significant changes since their sixteenth-century origins as a summer residence for Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, who had been born in the village.
The marble basin of the Fontana del Moro was made in 1575 by Giacomo della Porta and was decorated with groups of tritons, dragons and masks by 16th-century artists including van den Vliete, Taddeo Landini, Simone Moschini and Giacobbe Silla Longhi to designs by della Porta himself, which were replaced in 1874 with copies by Luigi Amici.
Location of the Tivoli gardens, 1826, from the Panorama de la ville de Paris par AM Perrot. The Tivoli gardens of Paris were amusement parks located near the current site of the Saint-Lazare station, named after the gardens of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli near Rome. There were several such gardens in succession between 1795 and 1842, none of ...
Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512 – October 30, 1583) was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian, and garden designer during the Renaissance period. He worked as the Vatican's Papal Architect under Popes Paul IV and Pius IV, designed the fountains at Villa d’Este at Tivoli for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este, and served as the Ducal Antiquary in Ferrara.