Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 34
from leafage and only broken by the stems of the trees, and abovethis another square mass of foliage : the idea of this arrangementbeing to get the additional shade provided by a higher hedge, withoutthe disadvantage of shutting out the prospect and the air. High box hedges, broken at intervals by… … Paolo V. from the designs of Gio. Antonio Vansantio and FlaminioPontico in the early years of the seventeenth century. Like the Villa Papa Giulio, this palazzo does not appear to havebeen built as a dwelling, so much as a place in which to entertainfriends and the numerous strangers who flocked to…
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