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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

First terrace