Renaissance Italian Garden No.1 by sandra46

Photography • Landscape • posted on May 25, 2009

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Description

A feature of Italian gardens is the lack of flowers and the dominant chiaroscuro effects created by sculpted trees and shrubbery. The pines and cypress from the adjacent, less formal hunting park add a contrasting backdrop. It is the Topiary, or the art of creating sculptures in the medium of clipped trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs. At the same time that Renaissance painters were exploring new techniques and subject matter, a new kind of poetry was emerging that was particular to Venetian life. As land became scare in the lagoon city, the garden became a rare environment. The Venetian Renaissance villa garden was a setting for poetry and philosophy, a humanist ideal whose origins extended ultimately to the loci amoeni (landscape of delight) described in the works of Plato. Villa Molin is a patrician residence at Mandria, in Ponte della Cagna, south of Padova. It was designed for Nicolò Molin, a Venetian noble, by Vincenzo Scamozzi and completed in 1597. It faces Mandriola, on the opposite side of the Canale di Battaglia. When Nicolò wished to erect there a villa for summer use that would be suited to the family's standing, it was natural to turn to Scamozzi, first among Venetian architects in the terrafirma since the death of Palladio in 1580. After the villa's completion Molin became the Venetian ambassador to James I of England. His official correspondence with the Serenissima (Venice), in the Calendar of State papers relating to English affairs in the archives of Venice, have long been mined by historians. The villa, however, was not long enjoyed by its patron, who died on 9 May 1608. Seven years later his brothers conveyed the villa to the Capodilista Earls. Passing through heiresses in the nineteenth century, the villa's lands were subdivided and it was eventually reduced to a farmhouse before being rehabilitated by a sympathetic new owner, Marquess Dondi dell' Orologio. He provided the villa with its grand exterior staircase to the piano nobile and planted the surrounding parkland with specimen trees, now at full maturity. During World War I, the villa served as military command headquarters and was the site of preliminary negotiations that led to the signing of the Austrian-Italian Armistice of Villa Giusti on 11 March 1918. In 1955 Villa Molin was restored again by the industrialist Igino Kofler, who replanted the formal Italian walled gardens with boxwood-edged beds. This villa is on the same road to San Pelagio Castle, but closer to Padova, and the photo was taken last November. Thank you for your kind comments.

Comments (36)

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MOSKETON

11:11AM | Mon, 25 May 2009

como viajas, todo este estilo de imagen es genial. felicidades.

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bmac62

11:21AM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Wow! Super interesting to me. One could make a lifetime study of gardens alone. Like your collage...photo on the left has the atmosphere of a painting.

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lyron

11:25AM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Lovely images. Excellent pictures!!!

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dusty357

11:50AM | Mon, 25 May 2009

beautiful!!! i think you couldve made 2 seperate entries

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MrsRatbag

11:57AM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Amazingly beautiful!

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allnaydi

12:03PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Marvelous captures and presentation - and, as always, great background information Sandra!

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Amosicho

12:11PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Lovely images. Fantastic shots

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flora-crassella

12:15PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

wonderful photos! the left image is fantastic!!!!!! Great mood!!!!

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greensleeves81

12:39PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

You are a wonderful story teller. I love such stories.

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Umbetro38

12:41PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

The left side is my Dreamplace - the right side harmony for my soul

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OrphanedSoul

12:46PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

I always wanted to make a garden like this, gorgeous capture!

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elfin14doaks

12:57PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

It is incredibly lush and peaceful looking, Great shot. I coouls spend all day there.

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pspworkshop

1:00PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Fabulous work!

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jeroni

1:39PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Wonderful and very creative work

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Radar_rad-dude

1:42PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Such exquisite beauty and rich heritage! I can only gaze upon the quality of these environments in awe! Totally fantastic captures and histories! Thanks again for sharing your vision! Much appreciated! 1,000,000,000,000,000+++++++++

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Minda

1:53PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

excellent picture and great story sandra!

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decie

2:16PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

beautiful photos and nice info.

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Star4mation

2:19PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Super photos Sandra :)

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Miska7

2:51PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Very nice images! Fine shots.

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mickuk50

2:58PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Of the two I love the light and mood in the left one Sandra .Excellent captures :o) Mick

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qrud

3:22PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Fabulous captures.

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durleybeachbum

3:33PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Fantastic info and great shots!

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Digitaleagle

3:36PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Fantastic garden and place loved reading the history about this grand old villa. beautifully captured!!!!

frankie96

5:09PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Really glad that all the benefactors restored it as such...enjoyed reading the history...great images...

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jocko500

5:34PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

so lovely to see this type of garden

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ShadowsNTime

5:51PM | Mon, 25 May 2009

Great history that you share with the photos! I love the sculpted shrubs and the maze like gardens. Superb Sandra! (thanks for the email and I am glad you enjoyed doing that work!!!:-p)

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