Our second class also visited Villa Lante, and I sketched the Fountain of the Air, La Fontana del Aria. This fountain is in a huge rectangular garden with sculptured hedges forming various arabesque patterns, very Renaissance, with pedestals and stone urns at regular intervals.
This garden is at the lower level of the Villa Lante gardens, which are terraced on a hill overlooking the town of Bagnaia - and I'm not sure how one pronounces that in Italian, it's sort of "Ban-YA-ya" but the first YA has more of a nga sound to it, like lasagna. Anyway, the town of Bagnaia can be seen below the garden of air, with this lovely fountain.
The youths seem to be holding up a globe, and are surrounded by four lion heads gushing water, which trickles down into a reflecting pool. Really a gorgeous fountain.
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