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Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments (1922)

Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 176

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pertain.112 Hans Holbein, an early contemporary of Tintoretto,is also said to have painted a maze of this description. Many mazes at that time were planned by the Italianarchitect Serlio, one of whose designs is shown in Fig. 81. The late sixteenth century furnishes abundant evi-dence of the… … Fig. 8i.—Maze Design by J. Serlio (Sixteenth Century). that the assertion of Horace Walpole, in his Essay onModern Gardening, to the effect that in Du Cerceausworks there is scarcely a ground plot without both around and a square maze, is not borne out by referenceto such editions as are generally…

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