| ADMONT ABBEY |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:19:49 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Lusthuis Admont Abbey, Styria 1840 A lusthuis is the German word for folly or a building designed for pleasure. |
| HELBRUNN FOUNTAIN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:19:52 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Roman wrestlers near the Roman Theatre Schloss Hellbrunn, Salzburg 1619 Completed in 1619, they illustrate the way water framed the evolution of Renaissance design from Humanist to Mannerist, from symmetry to living theatre. |
| HELBRUNN ZODIAC POND |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:19:55 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Zodiac Pond Schloss Hellbrunn, Salzburg 1619 Completed in 1619, they illustrate the way water framed the evolution of Renaissance design from Humanist to Mannerist, from symmetry to living theatre. |
| HUNDERTWASSER HOUSE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:00 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Zodiac Pond Schloss Hellbrunn, Salzburg 1619 Completed in 1619, they illustrate the way water framed the evolution of Renaissance design from Humanist to Mannerist, from symmetry to living theatre. |
| HUNDERTWASSER HILL HOUSES |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:02 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: ‘Rolling Hill House’ style Rogner Bad Blumau Spa, Bad Blumau 1993 Hundertwasser had expressed his dreamy vision for towns of the future in one of his earlier paintings, Rolling Hills, a Surrealist fantasy that took root in a modern landscape. |
| HUNDERTWASSER SHIFTED HILL HOUSES |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:08 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: ‘Shifted Hill’ House Rogner Bad Blumau Spa, Bad Blumau 1993 If the eye is the window of the soul, the eye-slit houses look ‘healthful’ and welcoming, seamlessly blending into their landscape. |
| WAGNER VIENNA |
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Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:10 GMT Album Category:Austria/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Hof Pavilion Vienna 1890s The Hof Pavilion was built for the Emperor and was only used once as the Imperial Family preferred to travel in a more conventional fashion. |
| BRUSSELS BOTANICAL-GARDEN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:22 GMT Album Category:Benelux/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: National Botanic Garden of Belgium Brussels 1788 The Austrian Emperor Joseph II created the National Botanic Gardens near Brussels in 1788 and it was expanded during the French Revolution (1796), probably to save the plant collection at the Court of Nassau. |
| DE NOTELAER CEILING |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:19 GMT Album Category:Benelux/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Italian Saloon I De Notelaer, Bornem 1791 The domed octagonal room is known as the Italian Saloon, and the exquisite decoration of its ceiling was inspired by the frescoes at Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
| DE NOTELAER FLOOR |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:24 GMT Album Category:Benelux/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Italian Saloon II De Notelaer, Bornem 1791 Over the doors and mirrors is a blue background depicting cartouches of gods such as Venus and Cupid. |
| ROSENDAEL FOUNTAIN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:31 GMT Album Category:Benelux/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Shell Gallery Cascade Kasteel Rosendael, Rozendaal 1836 At this time Holland was the centre of the European trade in shells, and these follies are decorated with fifty different species of shell and six of coral. |
| ROSENDAEL SHELL WALL |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:33 GMT Album Category:Benelux/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Shell Wall Kasteel Rosendael, Rozendaal 1836 The Shell Wall uses sound and movement to complement colour and pattern. It is exuberantly decorated with shells, figures and fountains that provide classical references and the gnomon keeps track of the time. |
| ROSENDAEL SHELLS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:38 GMT Album Category:Benelux/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Shells Kasteel Rosendael, Rozendaal 1836 Kasteel Rosendael is an elegantly naturalistic nineteenth-century landscape that provides a setting for a profusion of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baroque shell-work. |
| CHANTELOUP PAGODA |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:45 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Pagode de Chanteloup Amboise 1775 This Pagoda, seven storeys, rises in a diminishing cone, four of the levels with delicately wrought iron balconies, three in chinois style, the topmost is more robust and plain. |
| CHATEAU DE CANON-GAZEBO |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:47 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Chinese Pavilion Château de Canon 18th century Like Chiswick Park, Château de Canon, has an axis leading from the house across a grass parterre and small temples (including The Temple de la Pleureuse and a Chinese pavilion) were built in the woodland area. |
| CHATEAU D’IF |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Forteresse de Poupée Château d’If, Le Port-Marly 1844 Surrounded by water, The Doll’s Fortress, has some of the titles of Alexandre Dumas books and stories inscribed on its stonework and has a statue of a dog in his kennel by the front door. |
| CHATEAU DE RARAY |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:59 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Château de Raray Senlis 18th Century In the parterre garden, forming a backdrop, is a classically designed arched wall with allegorical and mythological statuary along the top of the wall. The animal references represents Paganism (the boar), Christianity (the stag) and hunting dogs. Below, in the alcoves there are statues of gods and goddesses, such as Diana, the Huntress and Apollo. |
| CHÂTEAU DE GROUSSAY PAGODA |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The three-tiered Pagoda Château de Groussay, Montfort l’Amaury 1949 At Groussay Terry used a small island on the lake in front of the château as the location for a three-tiered Pagoda inspired by eighteenth-century French chinois models such as that at Santeny in the Val-de-Marne in 1963. |
| CHÂTEAU DE GROUSSAY PYRAMID |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Pyramid and Shell Grotto Château de Groussay 1968 The pyramid was based on that of Caius Sestius in Rome, with a double flight of steps to a terrace over an Aphrodite-inspired shell grotto was sited beyond it, where it is serenely reflected in the lake. |
| CHÂTEAU D’APREMONT BRIDGE |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Pagoda Bridge Château d’Apremont, Apremont-sur-Allier 1985 Alexandre Serebriakoff designed a vermilion, yellow and eau-de-nil Chinese Bridge, topped by a delicate two-storey pagoda rising to a gilded pinnacle in 1985. |
| DESERT DE RETZ COLUMN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:21:49 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Column House or Broken Column Désert de Retz, Chambourcy 1774 De Monville’s gigantic Column House was a folly-like echo of Piranesi’s engravings of classical views. It was built in 1780 and was articulated with rectangular, square and oval openings to the four floors within, while the ‘decaying’ upper parts were fractured to allow light into the attic rooms. |
| DESERT DE RETZ PYRAMID |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:21:41 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Pyramid Désert de Retz, Chambourcy 1774 This is an Egyptian pyramid disguising an icehouse. Its central door opens into an underground chamber and the outer steps lead to a shallow platform running round the sides |
| PICASSIETTE HOUSE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:11 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: La Maison Picassiette Chartres 1938 In 1938 Raymond Isidore started to adorn every wall, every surface, including furniture and household goods, in his newly built house with mosaics from the broken ceramics and glass that he collected and stored in his garden. |
| PICASSIETTE PASSAGEWAY |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:16 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: La Maison Picassiette Interior Chartres 1938 Isidore started to adorn every wall, every surface, including furniture and household goods, in his newly built house with mosaics from the broken ceramics and glass that he collected and stored in his garden. |
| CHATEAU DE JAURRE l |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:50 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Rotunda Château de Jeurre, Morigny-Champigny 19th century The marvellous fabriques were originally for the park at Méréville they were designed by Hubert Robert. Many were saved from being lost: The Diary, the Temple, the rostral Column (which was a souvenir of the expedition by Cook by Augustin Pajou) were taken stone by stone from Méréville to Jeure and rebuilt at the end of the XIX century. |
| CHATEAU DE JAURRE ll |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:58 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Aphrodite Château de Jeurre Morigny-Champigny 19th century This statue of Aphrodite is inside the Rotunda. |
| CHÂTEAU DE CASTILLE |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The mausoleum of the Baron de Castille Château de Castille Argilliers 18th Century The Château de Castille dates from the 17th century and was restored in the late 18th century by Joseph Gabriel Froment, Baron de Castille. |
| CHÂTEAU DE LA BASTIE D’URFÉ l |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Neptune listening to the ocean (detail) Château de la Bastie d’Urfé, Saint-Étienne-le-Molard 1548 This panel depicts a fishtailed Neptune with his ear to a shell listening to the sea. He carries a triton and there are birds flying over with shells wrought into clouds. |
| CHÂTEAU DE LA BASTIE D’URFÉ ll |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Salle de Fraîcheur Château de la Bastie d’Urfé, Saint-Étienne-le-Molard 1548 Symbolic of sensual pleasure preceding spiritual refreshment and the allegorical journey from the pagan to the Christian world, in 1548 it was unknown in France for a grotto to lead to a chapel, and this is reputedly the sole surviving example of its kind in the country. |
| CHÂTEAU DU CHAMP DE BATAILLE l |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Round Pond Château du Champ de Bataille, Le Neubourg 2000 The Round Pond represents the original ocean, not forgetting the circle is symbolic of the divine and is the centre of the park. |
| CHÂTEAU DU CHAMP DE BATAILLE ll |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Le degré minéral Château du Champ de Bataille, Le Neubourg 2000 Power visibly and philosophically progresses in designed landscapes through seven degrés (stages), from Mineral, Vegetable, Animal, Humanity, Conscience and Light to the intangible Spirit. |
| PALAIS IDÉAL Detail |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. |
| PALAIS IDÉAL ENTRANCE |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. |
| PALAIS IDÉAL INTERIOR |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. |
| PALAIS IDÉAL ROOF DETAIL |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. |
| PALAIS IDÉAL SKYLINE |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. |
| PALAIS IDÉAL WEST FACADE |
 Date:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Album Category:France/ Click here to view album containing this image. |
| HERRENHAUSEN l |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:27 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Gilded figures Georgsgarten Herrenhausen, Hanover 1665 The outdoor Hedge Theatre, uses the woods and vistas to provide a dramatic backdrop, a popular Baroque conceit. The stage and approach are lined with extraordinary gilded lead figures posing in dance and dramatic positions. |
| HERRENHAUSEN ll |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:29 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Leibniz Temple Herrenhausen, Hanover 1665 From the Leibniz Temple, in the Georgengarten there are wide views over sweeping lawns and placid lakes framed by carefully arranged copses and specimen trees. |
| LINDERHOF |
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Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:36 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Moroccan House Schloss Linderhof, Ettal 1874 The Moroccan House was also an exhibition piece at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867, and was installed close to the Moorish Kiosk in 1873. |
| LINDERHOF CASCADE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:41 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Gazebo, Cascade and Neptune Pool Schloss Linderhof, Ettal 1874 On a straight axis with Flora and Venus there is a cascade of thirty marble water steps behind the castle leading to a gazebo. |
| LINDERHOF l |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:46 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Overview of the castle with the Temple of Venus Schloss Linderhof, Ettal 1874 Set in the foothills of the Alps west of Ettal, Schloss Linderhof is the smallest of (Mad) King Ludwig II of Bavaria’s fairy-tale castles and the only one that was completed. It is a heroic folly. |
| LINDERHOF |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:51 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Moorish Kiosk Schloss Linderhof Ettal 1874 At the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867 Ludwig had bought a Moorish Kiosk, designed by the Berlin architect Karl von Diebitsch who worked and studied in Egypt from 1862 to 1869. |
| MEERSBURG |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:54 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Garden Pavilion Meersburg 1712 Perched on a small ledge, overlooking Lake Constance, this small garden Pavilion decorated in Baroque stucco has a delicately painted ceiling. |
| RADEVORMWALD KIOSK |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:22:56 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Wooden Pavilion Radevormwald 1772 The Pavilion was built in 1772 and is one of the last well-preserved examples of rural Rocco in the Rhur Valley. |
| SANS SOUCI l |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:00 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Bacchanalian figures Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam 1744 The central rotunda of the palace celebrates the pleasures of the vines as bacchanalian figures, entwined with vines and grapes, besport themselves around the façade. |
| SANS SOUCI ll |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:04 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Bacchanalian figures Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam 1756 A detail from the Chinese Tea House by Johann G. Büring constructed in 1756 and currently houses a collection of porcelain. |
| SANS SOUCI lll |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:09 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Trellis Pavilion Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam 1744 One of two matching pavilions next to the Orangerie. |
| SCHWETZINGEN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:11 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Temple of Apollo Schloss Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen 1743 In the grounds at Schwetzingen Dawn is represented by the Bathhouse that leads to the new day of the Temple of Apollo, which sets into the dusk of the Temple of Mercury and enters night in the Mosque. |
| WORLITZ BRIDGE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:16 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Bridge Schloss Wörlitz, Wörlitz Built from 1764 – 1800, the Wörlitz Garden with an extent of 277 acres is not only one the largest but also one of the earliest and most distinguished landscape parks of Continental Europe. |
| WORLITZ LIBRARY |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:19 GMT Album Category:Germany/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Library Schloss Wörlitz, Wörlitz 1764 The philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the aesthetic of Johann Joachim Winckelmann underlie the design of the park in Dessau-Wörlitz and particularly in the Library. |
| BOMARZO ELEPHANT |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:25 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Prince Astolfo mounted on an elephant Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo 1552 The elephant represents Hannibal’s great march across the Alps and is, therefore, a symbol of strength. |
| BOMARZO LEANING HOUSE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:31 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Leaning House by the Moonscape Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo 1552 The crazily proportioned Crooked or Leaning House, albeit well built, is an architect’s nightmare but with harmony and order restored inside. |
| BOMARZO MONSTER |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:38 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: A Monster Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo 1552 In the rock-hewn figures, many allusions to the antique are obscure, but references to scenes in the poet Ludovico Ariosto’s romantic epic Orlando Furioso are much easier to interpret. |
| CASERTA ATTEONE FOUNTAIN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:42 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Fountain of Diana and Actaeon Reggia di Caserta, Caserta 1752 For looking at Diana in a state of undress Actaaon’s punishment is swift, his head already metamorphosed into that of a stag as baying hounds turn to kill their prey. |
| CASERTA CANALONE FOUNTAIN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:47 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Dolphin Fountain (detail) Reggia di Caserta, Caserta 1752 At one of the lawn is the Dolphin Fountain (also known as the Fontana del Canalone) complete with a central dolphin whose fins are replaced with talons. |
| CASERTA FOUNTAINS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:54 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Hercules Bridge Reggia di Caserta, Caserta 1752 The Bourbon King Charles III chose Reggia di Caserta to be the new capital of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily and it oozes Baroque power over nature. |
| LA SCARZUOLA ARCH |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:23:53 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Gate of Heaven La Scarzuola, Montegabbione 1958 Tomaso Buzzi (1900–81) was truly a twentieth-century man. He viewed architecture as frozen music, and created a Città Buzziana or Città Ideale complete with towers, spires and gateways. |
| LA SCARZUOLA REFLECTIONS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:02 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Theatre of the Bees La Scarzuola, Montegabbione 1958 Buzzi’s sound of frozen music includes a sweet hum in the Theatre of the Bees – buzzicare is the Italian for the busy buzz of bees, a play on his name in both English and Italian. |
| LA SCARZUOLA SKYLINE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:03 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Colosseum, Borromini-style lantern, the Pantheon and the Crystal Pyramid La Scarzuola, Montegabbione 1958 The drama of this cityscape is revealed and concealed, the eye can voyage freely whilst the body has to follow where the routes lead. |
| LA SCARZUOLA THEATRE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:09 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Theatre of Bees La Scarzuola, Montegabbione 1958 The seven theatres in the Città Buzziana parallel Shakespeare’s seven Ages of Man, laden with, and for the cognoscenti illuminated by, symbols and codes, references and quotations. |
| LA SCARZUOLA WALLS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:14 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Città Buzziana (detail) La Scarzuola, Montegabbione 1958 Buzzi’s Città Ideale or Città Buzziana was not designed as a physical shelter or to accommodate happy communes, although it does have a small population. |
| PALAGONIA FIGURES |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:21 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: A Roof Villa Palagonia, Bagheria 1715 The medley of six hundred assorted statues on the encircling walls and gates of Villa Palagonia were sculpted out of the local Aspra tufa. |
| PINOCCHIO PARK |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:23 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Four black rabbits carrying a coffin Parco di Pinocchio, Collodi 1953 Based on Avventure di Pinocchio and throughout the park are other characters from the children’s story. |
| VILLA BARBARIGO RABBIT POOL |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:32 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Mossy pond Villa Barbarigo Pizzoni Ardemani, Valsanzibio 1669 In a Baroque interpretation of nature embellished by the hand of man, the gardens are designed along two axes down which water travels, via mirrored fishponds, cascades and streams, through lawns and between hedges backed by mature trees. |
| VILLA BARBARIGO |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:32 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Portal of Diana Villa Barbarigo Pizzoni Ardemani, Valsanzibio 1669 Visitors originally arrived by gondola at the Portal of Diana, an imposing Baroque gateway marking entry into this Edenic fantasy. |
| VILLA D ESTE DIANA OF EPHESUS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:36 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Diana of Ephesus Villa d’Este, Tivoli 1565 Mother’s milk is the most virtuous fluid and it flows in abundance from the multi-breasted Fountain of Nature, inspired by the classical portrayal of Diana of Ephesus. |
| VILLA D ESTE 100 FOUNTAINS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:46 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Alley of a Hundred Fountains Villa d’Este, Tivoli 1565 Nearly three hundred jets line the Alley of a Hundred Fountains from whose misty, mossy depths Ovid’s classical characters metamorphose into animal form. |
| VILLA D ESTE BOAT FOUNTAIN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:42 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Fountains of Rome Villa d’Este, Tivoli 1565 Set in seven miniature hills The Fountains of Rome represent the genesis of Rometta (Little Rome) sheltered under the Tiburtine Mountain holding the Temple of the Sibyl, while the godly Appenines cradle the embryonic Tiber. |
| VILLA LANTE FOUNTAIN |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:49 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Parterre Garden Villa Lante, Bagnaia 1566 The gardens of Villa Lante, built by Cardinal Gambara and regarded as one of the in history of garden design of the Mannerist phase of the Italian renaissance. |
| VILLA LANTE OVERVIEW |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:53 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Villa Lante The Parterre Garden Bagnata Dated 1566 The gardens of Villa Lante, built by Cardinal Gambara and regarded as one of the in history of garden design of the Mannerist phase of the Italian renaissance. |
| VILLA PALAGONIA FIGURES |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:58 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Villa Palagonia A Roof Bagheria Dated 1715 The medley of six hundred assorted statues on the encircling walls and gates of Villa Palagonia were sculpted out of the local Aspra tufa. |
| VILLA PISANI MAZE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:04 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Maze Villa Pisani Nazionale, Stra 1750 In the middle of the extensive gardens of Villa Pisani is this perfectly formed maze. |
| VILLA PISANI |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:06 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Classic supporting figures Villa Pisani Nazionale, Stra 1750 The Villa Pisani near Venice, positioned on the banks of the Brenta River, and surrounded by extensive gardens, it was intended as a place of escape from the heat and humidity of the Venetian lagoon during the hottest weeks of summer. |
| VILLA SGARIGLIA DEVIL |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:15 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Villa Sgariglia The Devil Ascoli Piceno 1790s Built for the Marquess Pietro Emidio Sgariglia, by Lazzaro Giosafatti. In 1790 the architect Baldassarre Orsini, defined Giosafatti ‘the Brunelleschi of the City of Ascoli’. |
| VILLA TORRIGIANI l |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:14 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Garden of Venus Villa Torrigiani, Camigliano 1651 The Garden of Venus is surrounded by high walls and approached by dramatic balustraded double steps punctuated by statuary, from which one descends to a parterre garden defined by clipped box hedging. |
| VILLA TORRIGIANI ll |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:20 GMT Album Category:Italy/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Grand Approach Villa Torrigiani, Camigliano 1651 Nicolao Santini having served as Ambassador for Lucca at the court of Louis XIV in France, returned to Villa Torrigiani brimming with fantastic ideas, he set about transforming the Tuscan villa and gardens in the latest French Baroque style. |
| FRONTERIA DETAIL OF TILE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:32 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Monkeys (detail) Palácio da Fronteira, Lisbon 1670 One of the bright azulejos or glazed tiles depict classical, satirical and pleasant scenes in their hallmark blue and white that cover the galleries. |
| FRONTERIA GALLERY OF THE ARTS |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:30 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Gallery of the Arts Palácio da Fronteira, Lisbon 1670 Gallery of the Arts that leads from the palace to the chapel depicts the seven liberal arts. |
| PENA PALACE DUCK HOUSES |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:37 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Duck Island Palácio da Pena, Sintra 1840 Lake gardens were created that included such follies as a Gothic monk’s grotto and an extensive medieval-style duck castle, complete with constellations and ramparts. |
| PENA PALACE |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:43 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Palace Palácio da Pena, Sintra 1840 The palace, which sits on one of the highest peaks and dominates the Serra de Sintra landscape, is like a fairy-tale castle – a confection of pointed turrets, golden domes and crenellated walls. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:48 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: King D. João IV’s window Quinta da Aveleda, Oporto 1893 This is the window from which Dom João IV was officially proclaimed king in Oporto and had been saved when the Royal Palace was demolished in 1800; its carving of tendrils and masonry details are now outlined in moss and surrounded by trees. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:54 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Geese House Quinta da Aveleda, Oporto 1893 At Aveleda the geese have their own small thatched cottage, a rustic picturesque cottage orné set on an island in a lake, reminiscent of a Japanese tea house. |
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Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:25:56 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Our Lady of Vandoma Fountain Quinta da Aveleda, Oporto 1893 Architecture, water and religious symbolism combine in the fountain wall dedicated to Our Lady of Vandoma who is patron saint of Oporto. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:05 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Swiss Chalet Quinta da Aveleda, Oporto 1893 The other thatched rustic building is for taking tea after the Irish garden writer William Robinson who promoted the use of local materials for garden structures. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:09 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The Celestial Terrace Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra 1893 An array of belvederes, galleries and balconies rose, built by Mestre Gonçalves who had founded the Escola Livre das Artes e Desenho, Lisbon and the sculptors the brothers José, Luís and Júlio da Fonseca from Sintra. |
| QUINTA DA REGALEIRA HOUSE OF THOTH |
 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:17 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: The House of Thoth Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra 1893 The Egyptian god Thoth was the god of wisdom, numbers, music, astronomy, guardian of libraries and temples that are closely associated with the Greek god Hermes and Roman Mercury. The house is decorated with a blue background mosaic of several ibis drinking at a spring. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:13 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: At Night Quinta de Monserrate, Sintra 1856 Beckford used a small part of his huge fortune to landscape the wilderness of the mountains and make improvements to the quinta, which was described in 1821 as: ‘the most picturesque palace … [with] … every beauty and sublimity which Cintra has to boast’. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:21 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Front elevation Quinta de Monserrate, Sintra 1856 The intricate architectural detail includes 1,176 treble arches ornately encompassing the building that are echoed by bands of leaf-and-tendril motifs. The palace receives its light through the ornate tracery of arched windows supported by carved columns. |
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 Date:Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:23 GMT Album Category:Portugal/ Click here to view album containing this image. Tags: Description: Quinta de Monserrate Sintra 1856 This palatial example of Anglo-Portuguese passion and e |
