Italia/Villa_adriana - Gardens of the Roman Empire

When, after having asked Dr. Reggiani to write about the garden emerged by her excavations, I began to study the map she kindly sent me (Fig. 75). Mari had informed me that the ...

These gardens, (Fig. 72) never completed, would probably have covered 35.000 square meters. One extended itself between the impressive Nymphaeum waterfall (Fig. 73) set at the ...

The presence of a garden on the eastern side of this luxurious pavilion with its monumental exedra is denounced by the high presence of lead in its soil (SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 1994-...

Quite certainly there was a garden here, but we don't have any elements to help us to reconstruct its appearance (Fig. 36). Only a trench was by me excavated in the western part ...

Today what is left of this garden is a nymphaeum 7 m long and 3.50 m large. It was set against a wall on its northern side and served as a background to the area. It consisted of ...

This garden was placed to the east of the Palace and, looking the Valley of Tempe, was sustained by a huge wall (Fig. 1, 15). Now nothing of it is left, but in ancient times a ...

Here only the considerable presence of lead in the soil denounces the existence of an ancient garden (SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 1994-95, fig. 7). It is clear that this space, which was ...

The Palace nymphaeum (LUGLI 1927) has already been published quite extensively in the proceedings of the last symposium on ancient Roman Gardens held in Rome in 1995 (JASHEMSKI, ...

This garden was set in the middle of a luxurious peristyle (SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 2000, pp. 335-337, fig. 116). Unluckily only its western part has been preserved. From what we ...

This terrace, leaning to the North on a sustaining wall, is the first one of a series of very interesting overhanging gardens developing on successive sloping down terraces (Fig. ...

Here also the presence of a garden is only denounced by the high content of lead in the soil (SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 1994-95, fig. 7) and by the decorative setting, which is offered ...

This Belvedere is not really a garden. The area is all paved with luxurious opus sectile, and, therefore, there were no flowerbeds, but in every important park, beside bushes and ...

The Canopus (Fig. 2 and 3) is perhaps the most important of all Villa Adriana's gardens (JASHEMSKI, SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 1987-88, pp. 152-162, fig. 11-15; JASHEMSKI, SALZA PRINA ...

It has already been cited in the precedent Jashemski-Ricotti article but only very sketchily (JASHEMSKI, SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 1987-88, pp. 149-150, fig. 3). Today the finding of ...

The garden of the Piazza d'Oro is one of the most prestigious and interesting of Villa Adriana. It consists of a peristyle garden set amid a double portico and surrounded by some ...

We always find open spaces around the more important tombs and we know that they were kept as gardens. Just last summer Prof. Foss analyzed the samples drawn from the enclosure ...

The Great Entrance Hall of Hadrian's villa (Fig. 9) presents three gardens, two of which (Fig. 9, A and G) are peristyle ones. a – The main gate to the Hadrianic residence opens ...

This garden belongs to the republican period and it is one of the most ancient of Villa Adriana. It is enclosed in a large peristyle 48 m wide, 72 m long. The place seems to have ...

The Pecile (Fig. 20) was never excavated as a garden. Thus, today, we have only the large pond, 30 m wide x 116 m long (Fig. 21) which hosts a flock of white geese (Fig. 20, A). ...

The so-called Inferi (Figg. 68 and 69) is a garden arrangement placed a little South of the tomb and closely connected with the building called the "Temple of Pluto" set just ...

The so-called "Throne Hall" (MACDONALD, PINTO 1995, pp. 78-81), was not a throne hall at all (Fig. 46). It was a garden (JASHEMSKI, SALZA PRINA RICOTTI 1987-88, pp. 154-156, figs....

Already widely documented, published and discussed, it was surveyed, excavated and reconstructed by A. Hoffman (HOFFMAN 1980). His book is an outstanding and very important work ...

This terrace offers a splendid view of Tivoli and its mountains (Fig. 30). The concentration of lead in its soil shows that it was kept as a cultivated area (SALZA PRINA RICOTTI ...

The principal element of this garden (Fig. 28) is the sustaining wall of the overhanging terrace, a kind of theater scenery decorated by a series of 23 alternatively semicircular ...

Villa Adriana

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Antinous' tomb (Fig. 1, n. 25) (DRAFT)

Garden between the nymphaeum on the E side of the Academy and the Praetorium (Fig. 1, n. 24) (DRAFT)

Garden in the courtyard of the buildings to the East of the Inferi Nymphaeum (Fig. 1, n. 22) (DRAFT)

Garden in the Palace Summer part (Fig. 1, n. 14) (DRAFT)

Garden of the triclinium North of the Maritime Theatre (Fig. 1, n. 7) (DRAFT)

Garden on a terrace (Fig. 1, n. 15) (DRAFT)

The garden in front of the Piazza d'Oro (Fig. 1, n. 19) (DRAFT)

Palace nymphaeum (Fig. 1, n. 16) (DRAFT)

Peristyle-garden on the eastern side of the Republican villa (Fig. 1, n. 18) (DRAFT)

Terraced garden of the Libraries (Fig. 1, n. 8) (DRAFT)

The area under the Temple of the Venus of Cnidus (Fig. 1, n. 12) (DRAFT)

The Belvedere of the Venus of Cnidus (Fig. 1, n. 11) (DRAFT)

The Canopus gardens (Fig. 1, n. 2) (DRAFT)

The garden between the Small Baths and the Three Exedras Hall (Fig. 1, n. 5) (DRAFT)

The Garden of the Piazza d'Oro (Fig. 1, n. 20) (DRAFT)

The garden of the tomb (Fig. 1, n. 21) (DRAFT)

The gardens at the entrance of Hadrian's villa (Fig. 1, n. 3) (DRAFT)

The gardens at the entrance of Hadrian's villa (Fig. 1, n. 3) (DRAFT)

The Libraries' Courtyard (Fig. 1, n. 13) (DRAFT)

The Pecile (Fig. 1, n. 6) (DRAFT)

The so-called Inferi Nymphaeum (Fig. 1, n. 23) (DRAFT)

The so-called Throne Hall garden (Fig. 1, n. 17) (DRAFT)

The Stadium-garden (Fig. 1, n. 4) (DRAFT)

The terrace on the valley of Tempe (Fig. 1, n. 10) (DRAFT)

Garden arrangement under the Libraries' terrace (Fig. 1, n. 9) (DRAFT)