about 500 years ago, Count Orsini Pier hunchback be devastated by the death of his wife, Giulia Farnese, whom he loved deeply. Eager never go to a garden and see beautiful sculptures and cheerful, but on the contrary, his desire was to find such pain that was in his heart, commissioner to the sculptor and who subsequently jump to stardom at the end of the Basilica of St. Peter after the death of Miguel Angel. Renaissance architect Pirro Ligorio.
Bomarzo, as indicated by the curators of the park, is a pun based on the Latin Polymartium (one theory is that the name refers to the city of the god of war Mars.)
In the garden is no shortage of depictions of the Roman gods, all accionares poses and really creepy, as the hero Hercules tearing into their own hands to Caco, or a war elephant of Hannibal, crushing a Roman legionary to death.
Unlike the symmetry of the gardens of the time, Bomarzo seems to have no central planning, and his sculptures appear to be disconnected from each other. of the most impressive sculptures is Orcus, the ogre, for which Ligorio played with geometry and shadows on it. Thus, the sculpture seems to "change" his facial expression getting happier as the night approaches.
On the park's entrance, two statues dedicated to Augustus Caesar told us a clue to the theme park, the seven wonders tight representing the 7 metals and 7 transmutable miraculous plants. Here is a short video detailing the curious park:
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