Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and

Idling alongside the waters of artificial grottoes, visitors found themselves in lush, otherworldly settings, where art and nature, pleasure and peril, and humans and nymphs could, for a time, coexist. Laura Tradii spelunks through the handmade caves of the Italian Renaissance and their reception abroad, illuminating how these curious spaces transformed across the centuries.

Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and

Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and

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Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and

Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and

Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and