Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 46
in overcoming a technical difiiculty,and the effect, from the garden, is very successful,though the well-like court makes an unfortunate gapbetween the house and its grounds. Behind the fountain, and in a line with it, a horseshoe-shaped amphitheatre has been cut out of the hillside,surrounded by… … FLORENTINE VILLAS garden-architecture. In general design and detail itbelongs to the pure Renaissance, without trace of theheavy and fantastic barrochismo which, half a centurylater, began to disfigure such compositions in the villasnear Rome. Indeed, comparison with the…
