Resumen de The idea of land embellishment: As exemplified in the Monatsblatt für Verbesserung des Landbauwesens und für zweckmäß?ge Verschönerung des baierischen Landes (Monthly for improvement of rural architecture and appropriate embellishment of the state of Bavaria) from 1821 to 1829
Contrary to the western religious vision of the earth as a valley of misery is the idea of an earthly paradise. Yet Italian popes and cardinals have shown time and again what an earthly paradise could look like. The garden and house of the cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509-1572) in Tivoli, some 30 kilometres east of Rome, Italy is one example. It attracted painters such as the French Hubert Robert (1733-1808) and the German Carl Blechen (1798-1840) and thousands of visitors frequent the place even today. The garden and house of the cardinals Gambara and Montalto in Bagnaia, Italy, known as Villa Lante, which were created from 1573 onwards, are another example; and there are many others.
