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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 217

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the angles of the secondstory. These tall arcades, resting on slender columns,give a wonderful effect of spreading lightness to thefacade, and break up its great bulk without disturbingthe general impression of strength and dignity. As askilful distribution of masses the elevation of the… … VILOMBARD VILLAS ON the walls of the muniment-room of the oldBorromeo palace in Milan, Michelino, a little-known painter of the fifteenth century, hasdepicted the sports and diversions of that noble family.Here may be seen ladies in peaked hennins and longdrooping sleeves, with their shock-headed…

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