This post is a little belated...our class went to the Parco dei Mostri on the afternoon of April 21, so over a month ago. It was devised by the architect Pirro Ligorio, who completed St. Peter's in Rome after Michelangelo died and also built Villa d'Este in Tivoli (see following blog).
There are enormous statuse of the fantastic and whimsy that pop out from behind trees along wooded paths.
The scale is impressive and also the freedom of imagination was in opposition to the order that we had seen in Villa Lante only that morning.
There is even a house for giants that was intentionally built at an angle. Going inside the rooms is like going through one of those funhouses at a carnival...it toys with your sense of balance.
It was a beautiful day and actually the first day that I could call "hot" while we were in Italy. I was thankful that there was such abundant shade and such beautiful foilage.
The sound of a waterfall teased us as we wound our way along the paths.
These giants are wrestling in an eternal battle to the death!
This mermaid has two tails?! That's a first.
We all thought that this sculpture looked like the Cave of Wonders in the Disney movie Aladdin. I wonder if this is where the inspiration came from?
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