Naples, city below a volcano

Cloister garden, Santa Chiara

The Cloister garden of the Santa Chiara Monastery in Naples, commissioned by abbess Ippolita Carmignani in 1739 and executed by landscape architect Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. He decorated pillars and benches with hundreds of tin-glazed earthenware tiles, known as majolica, with tiled panels using motifs of vines, lemons, oranges and figs and decorated with images of everyday rural life in the 1700s, including scenes of boar hunting, bowling, dancing, even a Carnival.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Fri Oct 28, 1994
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