View of obelisk with Pitti Palace in background, Basin just next to obelisk
The Boboli obelisk, previously called the Obelisco Mediceo, is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk, which was moved in the 18th century from Rome to Florence, where it was erected in the Boboli Gardens.
The Boboliobelisk, previously called the Obelisco Mediceo, is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk, which was moved in the 18th century from Rome to Florence...
as carried on the back of an elephant. Rome lost one of its obelisks, the Boboliobelisk which had decorated the temple of Isis, where it was uncovered...
The Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli) is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed...
Obelisks had a prominent role in the architecture and religion of ancient Egypt. This list contains all known remaining ancient Egyptian obelisks. The...
Levanto marble. The conceit of turtle bases was originally used in the BoboliObelisk. Palazzo Spinelli, Repertorio delle Architetture Civile di Firenze,...
harbours thirteen ancient obelisks, the most in the world. There are eight ancient Egyptian and five ancient Roman obelisks in Rome, together with a number...
a list of all obelisks built after the 16th century. See List of obelisks in Rome, List of Egyptian obelisks for some ancient obelisks. (Listed in date...
one obelisk lies buried near the church of San Luigi dei Francesi; lastly, two more were brought outside Rome after antiquity: one is in Boboli Gardens...
Palazzo Pitti Southern façade of Palazzo Pitti facing the Boboli amphitheatre and obelisk The Königsbau wing ('King's building / den') of the Munich...
Santa Maria in Via Lata. The remains, including the plinths are now in the Boboli Gardens, in Florence. Watkin, David (2011). A History of Western Architecture:...
Ferdinand de' Medici in 1584, from where the plinths found their way to the Boboli Gardens in Florence. Other fragments from the Antonine period, reused by...
enlarged by Aldi, and the original border is hidden from the porphyry obelisk that rises unusually close to the center of the representation to the top...
It was inspired by the gardens of her native Florence, particularly the Boboli Gardens, and made by a Florentine gardener, Bernard de Carnesecchi. The...
eighteenth century moved to Florence. Since 1840, it has stood in the Medici's Boboli Gardens in Florence. The ruins of the baths also supplied an ornate column...
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