The Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History

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Are you an educator, or do you know one? DiLiLAH is introducing curriculum material for teachers to introduce their students to landscape architecture and history through the use of our virtual tours. Check out our new worksheets for Villa Lante. More to come next week!
http://www.dililah.org/villa_lante_map_post.html

Villa Lante - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History Villa Lante is considered to be one of the finest examples of Mannerist Italian garden design. Construction on the estate began in 1566, with the majority of the design work by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. Villa Lante was commissioned by Cardinal Gianfrancesco Gambara, and references to Cardinal Gamba...

Spent all day yesterday working on making virtual tours of gardens for VR. Viewing a tour in VR is, as you might expect, amazing! We'll be starting to add some early VR-supported tours in the coming months.

Also, look for new tours from Istanbul and New Orleans in the next couple of weeks!

Check out the new virtual tours from New Zealand: www.dililah.org

Time to visit jolly old England...

Chiswick House - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History Chiswick House is an 18th century estate, now located in the suburbs of London. The estate belonged to Lord Burlington, a patron of the arts and an amateur architect. The gardens of Chiswick represent the beginning of the transition from the formal Italian and French styles, to the new English lands...

The Villa of the Mysteries - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History The Villa of the Mysteries was a Roman suburban villa located on the outskirts of the ancient city of Pompeii. Like the rest of the city, it was both destroyed and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The villa is most noted for the colorful fresco in the triclinium, thought to depi...

Want to check out a N**i relic of the past? Kind of weird. The Thingstätte of Heidelberg was an outdoor theater used for staging propaganda plays.

http://gardentaining.com/dililah/thingstatte_map_post.html

Heidelberg Thingstätte - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History The Heidelberg Thingstätte is an example of a N**i propoganda theater, or Thingspiel. Several of these theaters were built accross Germany in the years before the outbreak of World War 2, and were used to host plays that promoted Germanic culture and the ideals of the N**i regime. The Heidelberg Thi...

A virtual tour of the Campidoglio in Rome has just been posted. I hope to have more rolled out by the end of the year, some of which may include the Piazza del Poppolo, the Spanish Steps, the Places des Vosges, the Heidelberg Thingstatte, Heidelberg Castle, Chiswick House, or Het Loo. Any that you particularly want to see next?

http://www.gardentaining.com/dililah/campidoglio_map_post.html

Campidoglio - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History The Campidoglio is a noted plaza in the heart of Rome. It is located next to the ancient Roman Forum, and held great significance to the ancient Romans who considered it to be the caput mundi, or center of the world. The design for the piazza of the Campidoglio was begun by Michelangelo in 1538. The...

We are testing out tours compatible with smart phones and tablets. The Mezquita of Cordoba is the first one to get the special treatment... Check it out!

The Palace of Queluz in Portugal is one of the last baroque gardens created in Europe... or is it? See if you can spot how Queluz breaks the rules of the baroque.

http://www.gardentaining.com/dililah/queluz_map_post.html

Palácio de Queluz - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History The Palácio de Queluz was the former Portuguese royal palace in the city of Queluz, on the outskirts of Lisbon. The Palácio de Queluz is one of the best example of the convergence of the Baroque with traditional Portuguese elements. The gardens were heavily influenced by the French Formal style, wit...

Ever wonder what you could do if you had basically unlimited resources? Find out what King Louis XIV's solution was:
http://gardentaining.com/dililah/versailles_map_post.html

Château Versailles - DiLiLAH - Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History Villa Lante is considered to be one of the finest examples of Mannerist Italian garden design. Construction on the estate began in 1566, with the majority of the design work by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. Villa Lante was commissioned by Cardinal Gianfrancesco Gambara, and references to Cardinal Gamba...