The Villa d'Este at Tivoli
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The Villa d'Este at Tivoli
Academy Editions, 1996
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Description
This collection of photographs, drawings and text provides a reassessment of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli and its garden. It is based on a comparison between the Duperac document of 1573 (thought by many to represent the intended design of the gardens) and a recent survey of the garden.
Table of Contents
- Ligorio's Tiburtine Antiquities
- The Fountain of the Dragon: Jupiter's Crystal Cave
- The Fountain of Neptune and the Lower Garden
- The Tiburtine Sibyl
- The Water Organ
- The Oval Fountain
- The Grotto of Venus and the Fountains of Bacchus
- The Fountain of the Owls
- The Rometta
- The Grotto of Diana
- The Salotto
- The Line of a Hundred Fountains: Apotheosis at the End of Time
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography.
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