Sculpture in 16th century Garden of Bomarzo, Italy

Aug. 08, 1964 - A 16th century Italian Mystery: Monsters inhabit Garden of Bomarzo. Fifty miles North of Rome, beyond the medieval city of Viterbo, occupying a deep hollow just beneath the village of Bomarzo, lie the fantastic remains of a 16th Century enigma, the Garden of Bomarzo, also known as the Garden of Monsters. The assorted sculptures which people it are as weird and wonderful as anything one is apt to encounter anywhere. The first look is blandly deceptive, presenting to the beholder's eye a small classical temple somewhat in the Palladian style, and a few large size, carved stone urns. A little wandering, however, brings one face to face with a horrendous sight; a tremendous ogre with bulging eyes and a gaping mouth large enough to walk inside. Its interior, in fact, is furnished with a table and two chairs. Further along among the haystacks there is a life size elephant, which carries on its back a stone tower, on its head a female figure and its trunk a male figure which, on close examination, it seems to be strangling. Nearby is a dragon doing battle with a lioness for the possession of her cubs, one of which lies crushed beneath the dragon. Half concealed behind a large rock stands, a giant (even among giants), who is occupied in tearing a smaller male figure limb from limb. There are many more sculptured forms, scattered about the little valley, both surrealistic and terrifying in their aspects

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