Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 106
tered forms.Above all, the artist has drawn his inspiration fromRoman art, the true source of modern architecture, andnot from that of Greece, which, for all its beauty and far-reaching aesthetic influences, was not the starting-pointof modern artistic conceptions, for the plain historicalreason… … ROMAN VILLAS alighted at Monsieur Petits in the Piazza Spagnola,many of the great Roman villas were still in the firstfi-eshness of their splendour, and the taste which calledthem forth had not yet wearied of them. Later trav-ellers, with altered ideas, were not sufficiently interestedto examine in…
