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If you believe Petrarch, an Italian Renaissance garden was supposed to be the abode of peace and rest. The idea of the garden as an Arcadian idyll contrasted with the image of the city. This piece of nature became a refuge from the turmoil of artificial life. In the words of Leon Battista Alberti, the house and the park had to be harmonious unity, which was based on a similar use of geometric shapes. In the development of the Baroque garden art face two opposite principles: the geometry and nature. The garden has performed both as a geometric kendal lighting shape, and as an area reserved for the vegetable kingdom. This gave rise to the concept kendal lighting of two types of landscape architecture: a regular garden and landscape park. Villa d'Este in Tivoli, a masterpiece of the Italian landscape art, is striking a grand ensemble, plummeting levels, an abundance of decorative statues and buildings, powerful fountains and large masses of eternal greenery. The villa is situated on a hill with a magnificent view of the surrounding area, and on a clear day you can even see Rome. Garden complex, kendal lighting located below the palace and connects to it through the five terraces, connected to each other by stairs, kendal lighting ramps and transitions. The villa belonged to Cardinal Hippolyte II d'Este (1509-1572), who was the son of Lucrezia Borgia and nephew kendal lighting of Pope Alexander IV. Appointed kendal lighting governor of Tivoli kendal lighting in 1550, he immediately began to bear the idea of restoring the traditional residence of the governors of the Tivoli Gardens and the creation of the park on a steep slope near the palace, known as the "Valle Gaudente" (Merry Plain). The author of the project was the architect and archaeologist Pirro Ligorio, he helped a lot of artists and artisans. In 1563, under the direction of Girolamo Mutsiano kendal lighting started finishing the interior decoration of the palace, then the work will continue under the guidance of Livio Agresti and Federico Dzukkaro. In 1605, Cardinal Alessandro d'Este (1558-1624) significantly updated the park, new fountains, including by Gianlorenzo Bernini. kendal lighting In the XVIII century villa has experienced a long period of neglect, and a collection of antique statues and Flemish tapestries were scattered among various museums of Europe. In 1803, the entire ensemble joined the legacy of the Habsburgs. After the First World War, Villa d'Este became the property of the Italian state. Now it is a museum. The church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Tivoli Fountain of Venus in the courtyard of the palace. Venus depicted kendal lighting sleeping kendal lighting on the background of the symbolic garden of the Hesperides. The yard is surrounded on three sides by galleries. Double balcony of the palace. Balcony with a fountain "tripod". Pirro Ligorio. Fountain Authority. 1568 Fountain is famous for the first time the hydraulic body. The body is almost completely lost by the end of the XVIII century, now restored. Gianlorenzo Bernini. Fountain of Neptune. 1661 (Restored Attilio Rossi in 1927) Fish cages Fountain Fountain of Tivoli or "dell Ovate" - a spectacular water show, which was made by a master Curzio Maccarone in 1564-1570 under the project of Pirro Ligorio. Behind a large oval pool is a vast eskedra with arches and niches, where ten nymphs of gray volcanic tuff keep vases from which flow like streams of water, and a large bowl overthrown spectacular cascade. Eskedroy rises above a marble statue of Venus. "Rotonda cypresses." Only two were of cypress planted in the XVII century. "One Hundred Fountains" Dragon Fountain Gillis Van de Vliet. kendal lighting Fountain "Goddess of Nature" or Diana Efezii. 1568 Fountain owls Curzio Maccarone (designed by Pirro Ligorio) Fountain "Rometta". 1567-1570 Beauty fountain. 1565 Main Hall, painted under the direction of Girolamo Mutsiano. On the wall is a "Solomon" column, which create the illusion of a gallery are conducted villa. Girolamo Mutsiano. Hall of Hercules. Hercules on Olympus Federico Dzukkari. Hall of Fame. 1566-1568 Federico Dzukkari. Hall of Nobility. 1566-1568 Covered gallery or "long sleeve" that connects kendal lighting between a lower floor rooms, built on the principle of Roman arcades with light slanting ceiling through small windows. The upper part of the cooperage arch decorated with mosaics depicting birds and flowers. "It is the eternal image of a Roman villa, captivates the imagination, a kind of eternal is our dream. Abundant water flowing there, forming a quiet mirrored pools and soaring sparkling in the sun streams fountains. Wide terraces lined with rows of darkened by the time the statues. Curved stairs lead up to it, the green moss lay thick on their balustrades. Alley pass under the arches of evergreen oaks. Sunbeam is replete with thin trunks in the woods myrtle and laurel. Thickets of ferns occupy abandoned wet caves, cave tender grass hanging from their ceilings. Marble benches are at the foot of the old cypress trees, and their solid resinous