An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 800
PRINCirLES FOR DESIGNING VILLAS. 777 from Francesco Solimene, the last of the old school of Italian painters, fig. I41fi. Tliisvery picturesque residence was situated at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, and must haveharmonised admirably with the surrounding scenery. 1416 … 1659. The Beau Ideal nf the Italian Style of Villa Architecture, it is justly observed bvIMeason, is to be found in the landscapes of the great Italian painters, and more especiallyin the backgrounds of their pictures. Speaking of the examples which Italy and herartists afford to the rest of…
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