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View of the Villa Medici and garden in Rome, Prospettiva del giardino del serenic.mo gran duca di Toscana sul Monte Pincio, Gardens in Rome, Li giardini di Roma con le loro piante alzate e vedute in prospettiva disegnate e intagliate da Gio. Battista Falda, print, album page, View of the Villa Medici and garden in Rome. People strolling in the garden. In the lower margin the title and an explanatory list of numbers. Print is part of an album., number: '108', inscription: 'Ende lib. No. 10. folio 1.', printmaker: Giovanni Battista Falda, Italy, after design by Annibale Lippi, Rome, publisher: Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, grantor of privilege: Innocent or before 1683, Giovanni Battista Falda, Annibale Lippi, Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, Innocent title picture) with views of gardens in Rome., garden, hôtel, ie small palace in city, plan, map of garden, Pincio, Villa Medici (Rome), A detailed engraved view shows a formal garden with geometric parterres, clipped hedges, circular ornament beds, and gravel paths flanked by rows of trees. In the foreground and extending toward the middle ground, figures in period dress walk along the central wide avenue and among the garden compartments. Decorative fountains and sculptural elements sit within some garden beds. To the right a large courtyard adjoins a substantial building with multiple windows, a fountain in its open square, and towers with cupolas. Low colonnaded arcades and ornamental façades border parts of the garden on the left, and a long straight promenade lined with tall slender trees recedes into the distance toward a distant landscape of rolling hills and scattered buildings. The sky is filled with horizontal shading and scattered cloud formations.
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