Detail View: Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive: Niobids
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Collection:
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Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive
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Image No.:
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200787
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Title:
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Niobids
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View:
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Seen in the Formal gardens
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Dates:
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1583-1587
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View Type:
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photographs
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View Date:
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Summer 1997
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Location:
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Europe--Italy--Lazio--Rome
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Location Type:
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Current
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Culture:
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Roman; Italian
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Period:
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Renaissance
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Creator:
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patron
Medici, Ferdinand I de'
1549-1609
Italian
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Category:
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Villas
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Work Type:
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Sculpture
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Subjects:
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Villa Medici (Rome, Italy); Medici family; Monte Pincio (Rome, Italy); Niobids; Garden sculpture; Hedges; Boundary walls
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Work Notes:
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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)
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Copyright Notice:
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(c) Johanna Bauman
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Rights Type:
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fair use
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