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483The Neugebäude the Neugebäude, but they were mostly derived from Pirro Ligorio’s Anteiquae Urbis Imago, his famous detailed plan of ancient Rome, printed in 1561 and consisting of 15 separate sheets together measuring 149 x 126 cm.82 This plan was basically a bird’s eye view of Rome and its immediate surroundings and illustrated the individual buildings in detail. Since these were often identi- fied on the basis of literary sources, it offered an ample choice of authoritative models. It is significant that almost every garden illustrated was surrounded by a continuing porticus, interrupted by higher pavilions on a square, a circular or a polygonal ground plan. Particular striking are the plans of the ‘Horti Bassiani Antonini Aug.’ (i.e. the gardens of the Emperor Caracalla) and the Horti Caesaris. The plan of the former [Fig. 9.66] is quite close to the Neugebäude: a huge rectangular garden surrounded on three sides by colonnades interrupted by round and square pa- vilions or towers, and on the fourth side by a long building consisting of a central block and connected with a two-story arcade to square pavilions at either end. In the reputed garden of Caesar [Fig. 9.67] the gallery enclosing the central garden is flanked at either end by towers which appear to be hexagonal rather than octagonal. This provided an authority for the hexagonal towers of the Inner garden of the Neugebäude. Another monument of some interest is the ‘Domus Petronii’, the principal facade of which (on the right in the illustration) consisted of a huge open colonnade over a closed, rustic socle zone between two corner pavilions; possibly this provided some of the inspiration for the Neugebäude’s principal building [Fig. 9.68].83 82 Mandowksy/Mitchell 1963, p. 41; Burns 1988. Ligorio was also the first to publish a recon- struction of the Villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Tibur (Tivoli). 83 Other plates of possible interest are ‘Lucus Petilinus’, ‘Collis Hortulorum’ (i.e. the gardens on the Palatine), the ‘Horti Domitiorum’ (included twice), and the ‘Monumentum  sextannio- rum’. I have used the digital version accessible on the site of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art: http://inha.divvalib.net/collection/365-livre-des-edifices-antiques-romains/?n=9. Figures 9.67–9.68 Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, the ‘Horti Caesaris’ and ‘Domus Petronii’, after Pirro Ligorio’s 1561 plan of Ancient Rome.