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| | Ligorio, Pirro |
 | | Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, art writer and antique dealer, was born in Naples circa 1510. |
 | | Being in Rome since 1534, he took the theme of stoic events for his paintings and made grotesque decorations. |
 | | For the same Ippolito, Ligorio projected brilliant Villa d'Este in Tivoli (1550 - 1572), which garden, with its fountains, stairs and pavilions, was one of the first and most famous examples of gardens "all'italiana", the masterpiece of the ingenious, scenographic and decorative fantasy of Ligorio. |
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