Giovanni Francesco Venturini (1650–1710), Veduta della cascata sotto l'organo nel piano del giardino.
, Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979
, PML 76264
In 1661 Gian Lorenzo Bernini altered the gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli to create a tumultuous cascade of water erupting through the garden wall and crashing down onto an axis of rugged boulders. Acclaimed as the most spectacular artificial waterfall of its century, it was a precursor of Sublime extremes in landscape architecture.