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).

SOURCE: Michel Roux-Spitz. Batiments et jardins, Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 1925 (Paris, 1925), pl. 28 NOTES: Andre Ventre and Pierre Patout were the architects of the pavilion while Henri Rapin designed the garden.

NOTES: This print was made for Britannia illustrata (London, 1707), vol. 1, pl. 6. See also RIBA10031 for the print in the published work.

NOTES: The Jardin de las Damas was already in existence in the 16th century, albeit on a smaller scale. In the early 17th century Vermondo Resta extended and redesigned it, laying out the garden as a large rectangle with eight compartments along a central axis, as seen here with fountains at the intersections of the paths.