Detail View: Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive: First terrace

Collection: 
Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive
Image No.: 
200745
Title: 
First terrace
View: 
General view
Dates: 
1573-1685
View Type: 
photographs
View Date: 
Summer 1997
Location: 
Europe--Italy--Lazio--Bagnaia
Location Type: 
Current
Culture: 
Italian
Period: 
Renaissance
Creator: 
architect Maderno, Carlo 1556-1629 Italian
Creator: 
architect Vignola, Jacopo da 1507-1573 Italian
Creator: 
patron Gambara, Giovanni Francesco 1533-1587 Italian
Creator: 
architect Ghinucci, Tomaso -1587
Category: 
Villas
Work Type: 
Terraces
Work Type: 
Parterres de broderie
Subjects: 
Villa Lante (Bagnaia, Italy); Gambara family; Terraces; Parterres de broderie; Water parterre (Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Italy); Gates; Naumachias; Hedges
Work Notes: 
As can be seen in the plan by Tarquinio Ligustri of 1596, this terrace was originally divided up into a series of square parterres, but was unified into one large parterre de broderie in 1685 by its new owners, the Lante family. (Barth, 2001, 51)
Copyright Notice: 
(c) Johanna Bauman
Rights Type: 
fair use