Gardens

NOTES: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola designed the villa and the gardens while Tommaso Chiruchi of Siena was the specialist in hydraulics who engineered all the water features.

NOTES: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola designed the villa and the gardens while Tommaso Chiruchi of Siena was the specialist in hydraulics who engineered all the water features.

NOTES: The gardens were designed by the owner, architect Clough Williams-Ellis, in three stages: the first one between 1908 and 1914, the second one between the two wars and the third one after 1951.

NOTES: Sanssouci was the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, built in 1745-1747 to designs by the Prussian aristocrat and architect, Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdoff. The creation of the Park, organised around several buildings, began soon after the completion of the palace.

SOURCE: John Buonarotti Papworth. Hints on ornamental gardening (London, 1823), pl. 12

SOURCE: Gaetano Landi. Architectural decorations (London, 1810), unnumbered plate [10th after pl. 18]

SOURCE: Humphry Repton. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (London, 1816), after p. 232

SOURCE: Gijsbert van Laar. Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden (Amsterdam [1819?]), pl. X