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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 159

An illustration from Italian villas and their gardens, 1904, leaf 159
rden-scheme, and not asdominating it, they fall into their proper place, and areseen to be good examples of the severe but pure styleof the early cinque-cento. Specially interesting also isthe treatment of the retaining-wall which faces the en-trance to the grounds; and the great gates of the… … VILLAS NEAR ROME of the inclusion of the woodland in the garden-scheme.All the sixteenth-century villas had small groves ad-jacent to the house, and the shade of the natural wood-land was used, if possible, as a backing to the gardens;but at the Villa Lante it is boldly worked into the gen-eral…

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