San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 281
isease is associatedwith low lying and marshy tracts, the villas were always built on thelofty slopes close by or on the more distant heights of Frascati. The position on the site was usually handled with considerable skill.An axial line, says Briggs, is usually taken from the main entranceto the… … FOUNTAIN DELLA ROCCA, BY VIGNOLA, AT VITERBO . . . the object of the Italians was not to create nature but to adorn it.The architect led one by gentle stages from the saloons of thehouse to a formal terrace, adorned with statues and balustrades, andthence through a formal ilex-hedged walk to a…
Architecture · Building
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
