Topiary

NOTES: Work on this palace, designed as a summer retreat for Dom Pedro of Braganza, began in Rococo style in 1747 under the architect Mateus Vicente de Oliveira (1706-1786). The architect of the Baroque ballroom facade is unknown.

SOURCE: Britannia illustrata (London, 1707), pl. 14

SOURCE: Britannia illustrata (London, 1707), pl. 25

SOURCE: Britannia illustrata (London, 1707), pl. 68

SOURCE: Britannia illustrata (London, 1707), pl. 71

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Falda. Le fontane del Giardino Estense in Tivoli (Rome, 1675?-1685), pl. 16

SOURCE: Salomon Kleiner. Representation au naturel des chateaux de Weissenstein (Augsbourg, 1728), pl. 2

SOURCE: Salomon Kleiner. Representation au naturel des chateaux de Weissenstein (Augsbourg, 1728), pl. 3