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Collection:
Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive
Image No.:
200787
Title:
Niobids
View:
Seen in the Formal gardens
Dates:
1583-1587
View Type:
photographs
View Date:
Summer 1997
Location:
Europe--Italy--Lazio --Rome
Location Type:
Current
Culture:
Roman; Italian
Period:
Renaissance
Creator:
patron
Medici, Ferdinand I de'
1549-1609
Italian
Category:
Villas
Work Type:
Sculpture
Subjects:
Villa Medici (Rome, Italy); Medici family; Monte Pincio (Rome, Italy); Niobids; Garden sculpture; Hedges; Boundary walls
Work Notes:
This ancient Roman sculptural group was discovered in the Tommasini vigna in Rome and installed in the gardens in an open pavilion at the terminus of the main longitudinal cross axis. The group was moved to one of the garden spaces in the formal garden in XXXX and was replaced by the sculpture of Dea Roma. (Coffin, 231; Chastel, 447-448)
Copyright Notice:
(c) Johanna Bauman
Rights Type:
fair use

Niobids