Légende
LAGO DI COMO. Villa d'Este, Cascate di ercole, Waterfalls in the garden of Villa d'Este on Lake Como, photograph, number: '7035.', Como, c. 1875 - c. 1900, photographer, Lombardy, paper, pasteboard, albumen print, height 202 mm x width 249 mm, water-works in garden, Cernobbio, Villa d'Este (Cernobbio), A wide sepia-toned photograph shows a formal building facade with ornate carved panels and archways flanking a central stairway that leads up to a terrace and a long narrow reflecting pool or canal framed by hedges and statues; tall slender obelisks topped with spherical finials rise above the roofline at intervals, and sculpted figures are placed in recessed niches on the facade and along the central axis; beyond the terrace a colonnaded pavilion or arch frames the distant end of the water feature, and dense tree-covered hills and a rocky cliff rise in the background, while a trimmed lawn and a curved path occupy the foreground.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A76_229
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
57.8Mo (12.0Mo) / 41.7cm x 34.7cm / 4923 x 4103 (300dpi)