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Collection:
Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive
Image No.:
201089
Title:
First terrace
View:
"Villa Lante, Bagnaja. View of Residences from Garden." (Plate 8)
Dates:
1573-1685
View Type:
photographs
View Date:
1902
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
Techniques:
Photogravure
Measurements:
43.18 x 33.65 cm
Category:
Villas
Work Type:
Terraces
Work Type:
Parterres de broderie
Subjects:
Villa Lante (Bagnaia, Italy); Gambara family; Terraces; Parterres de broderie; First terrace (Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Italy); Casinos (garden structures); Montalto Family; Second terrace (Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Italy)
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)
Image Notes:
In: Forbes, A. Holland, editor, "Architectural gardens of Italy." Published by New York: Forbes & Company, Ltd.
Rights Type:
fair use

First terrace