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A 16th-century engraving of the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" by Dutch artist Martin Heemskerck, with the Tower of Babel in the background

Villandry Jardins style Renaissance
Rectangular fishpond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees, in a fresco from the Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, 18th Dynasty
A funerary model of a garden, dating to the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, circa 2009–1998 BC.
Reconstruction of the Roman garden of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii
Rock sculpture from the 'Lingering Garden' of Suzhou, China
The Medici Villa Petraia, near Florence, epitomizes the Italian garden of the early Renaissance
The Italian garden at Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow, Ireland
Hermitage in English landscape garden of Kuskovo

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 File:Pond in a garden.jpg|Rectangular fishpond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees, in a fresco from the Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, 18th Dynasty
 File:FuneraryModel-Garden MetropolitanMuseum.png|A funerary model of a garden, dating to the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, circa 2009–1998 BC.
-File:Ricostruzione del giardino della casa dei vetii di pompei (mostra al giardino di boboli, 2007) 01.JPG|Reconstruction of the roman garden of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii
+File:Ricostruzione del giardino della casa dei vetii di pompei (mostra al giardino di boboli, 2007) 01.JPG|Reconstruction of the Roman garden of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii
 File:Liuyuan.jpg|Rock sculpture from the 'Lingering Garden' of Suzhou, China
+File:VillaPetraia.gif|The Medici Villa Petraia, near Florence, epitomizes the Italian garden of the early Renaissance
+File:Powerscourt - edit3.jpg|The Italian garden at Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow, Ireland
+File:Hermitage at Kuskovo.JPG|Hermitage in English landscape garden of Kuskovo
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