Canals

NOTES: This image is one of many taken by Ivy de Wolfe, the pseudonym of Hazel de Cronin Hastings, of Italian subjects. Many of these appeared in the book 'The Italian Townscape' by Ivor de Wolfe (London: Architectural Press, 1963).

SOURCE: Vues des chateaux royaux (Paris, n. d.), pl. 144 NOTES: The chateau was built in the 16th century while the gardens were laid out by Andre Le Notre in the 17th century.

NOTES: Also known as the Palazzo Santa Sofia, the Ca d'Oro was built for the Contarini family.

NOTES: Alfred George Stevens travelled to Italy in 1834 where he spent nine years studying the frescoes and paintings of the Old Masters. This sketchbook drawing may date from that time. In the early 1840s, after attending a design course at the Florentine Academy, he returned to London.