Italian villas and their gardens
Edith Wharton's 1904 survey of Renaissance villa architecture and garden design in Italy, published by the Century Co. in New York for American architects, gardeners, and cultivated travellers, with color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Parrish's paintings set cypresses, terraces, balustrades and obelisks as dark silhouettes against luminous dusk skies, offering high-contrast night palettes and layered garden framing devices.
