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... charm . Purity of style seems to have been but little valued in the past . In the course of my garden - hunt the unfailing courtesy that I have encountered everywhere makes an individual acknowledgment here practically im- possible . I ...
... charm . Purity of style seems to have been but little valued in the past . In the course of my garden - hunt the unfailing courtesy that I have encountered everywhere makes an individual acknowledgment here practically im- possible . I ...
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... charm . For centuries Herculaneum and Pompeii lay smothered under masses of lava and ashes . Finally , in 1748 , skilful archæologists began to remove this heavy mantle and discovered a wealth of artistic treasures buried in the ...
... charm . For centuries Herculaneum and Pompeii lay smothered under masses of lava and ashes . Finally , in 1748 , skilful archæologists began to remove this heavy mantle and discovered a wealth of artistic treasures buried in the ...
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... charming gardens are in the Sixth Region . It is difficult to decide whether to plan to visit them in the order of their age , their beauty , or their proximity . The oldest residences do not con- tain the most interesting gardens , nor ...
... charming gardens are in the Sixth Region . It is difficult to decide whether to plan to visit them in the order of their age , their beauty , or their proximity . The oldest residences do not con- tain the most interesting gardens , nor ...
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... charming plantation of oranges and lemons . A long colonnade extending the entire length of the building , as in the Casa di Loreio Ti- burtino , makes a pleasant place to walk or sit under the shadow of a grape - vine while looking at ...
... charming plantation of oranges and lemons . A long colonnade extending the entire length of the building , as in the Casa di Loreio Ti- burtino , makes a pleasant place to walk or sit under the shadow of a grape - vine while looking at ...
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... charmingly orna- mented with small statues and fountain basins , look- ing almost exactly the same as it did two ... charming Rhod- ian peristyle , characterized by the columns on one side of the colonnade being higher than the rest ...
... charmingly orna- mented with small statues and fountain basins , look- ing almost exactly the same as it did two ... charming Rhod- ian peristyle , characterized by the columns on one side of the colonnade being higher than the rest ...
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architect architectural features atrium balustrades Baroque basin beauty beds Boboli Gardens Bomarzo box-edged building built Caprarola Cardinal Carol Fulkerson Casa Caserta casino Castello castle centre charming clipped cloister Cosimo courtyard cypresses d'Este decorative designed enclosure engraving entrance evergreen Florence flowers Fontana forecourt fountain FRANCESCO VENTURINI Frascati frescoed gateway Giardino grotto hedges hill hillside ilex interesting Italian laid lake LAKE COMO loggia Lucca marble Maria mediæval Michelozzo Michelozzi miles Monastery Naples niche Open to public ornamented Owner palace Palazzo parterre pavilion pergolas peristyle Photograph by Alinari Photograph by Brogi Photograph by Carol Photograph by R. S. N. Piazza planted pleasure grounds pool Pope Porta Renaissance retaining wall Rome Rosazza secret garden SETTIGNANO seventeenth century shrubs side Siena stairway stands statuary statues stone Strada style terrace town trees Villa Borghese Villa Farnese Villa Gamberaia Villa Lante Villa Medici Villa Palmieri Villa Reale
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Page 159 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 160 - ... niches of box and laurel under their canopy of hanging ilex boughs; they are, in their weatherstained, mutilated condition, another sort of natural material fit for the artist's use; but the old sculpture being thus in a way assimilated through the operation of earth, wind, and rain, into tree-trunks and mossy boulders, a new sculpture arises undertaking to make of marble something which will continue the impression of the trees and waters, wave its jagged outlines like the branches, twist its...
Page 160 - It is high time that some one should stop the laughing and sniffing at this great sculpture of Bernini and his Italian and French followers, the last spontaneous outcome of the art of the Renaissance, of the decorative sculpture which worked in union with place and light and surroundings. Mistaken as indoor decoration, as free statuary in the sense of the antique, this sculpture has after all given us the only works which are thoroughly right in the open air, among the waving trees, the mad vegetation...
Page 103 - Yesterday I came to the villa of Careggi not to cultivate my fields but my soul. Come to us, Marsilio, as soon as possible, bringing with you our Plato's book, De Summo Bono.
Page 295 - Montaigne, Michel de. Journal du Voyage en Italic par la Suisse et I'Allemagne. Montanari, Paolo Gualdo. Vita di Andrea Palladia. Padova, 1749. Nolhac, P. de. Petrarque et son Jardin. Gior. Stor. Lett. Ital. 1887, p. 404. Palladio, A. L
Page 160 - — brings home to one, with the names of the architects who laid them out, that these Roman villas are really a kind of architecture cut out of living instead of dead timber. To this new kind of architecture belongs a new kind of sculpture. The antiques do well in their niches of box and laurel under their canopy of hanging ilex boughs ; they are, in their weather-stained, mutilated condition, another sort of natural material fit for the artist's use ; but the old sculpture being thus in a way...
Page 160 - ... rain, into tree-trunks and mossy boulders, a new sculpture arises undertaking to make of marble something which will continue the impression of the trees and waters, wave its jagged outlines like the branches, twist its supple limbs like the fountains. It is high time that some one should stop the laughing and sniffing at this great sculpture of Bernini and his Italian and French followers, the last spontaneous outcome of the art of the Renaissance, of the decorative sculpture which worked in...
Page 160 - ... weather-stained, mutilated condition, another sort of natural material fit for the artist's use ; but the old sculpture being thus in a way assimilated through the operation of earth, wind, and rain, into tree-trunks and mossy boulders, a new sculpture arises undertaking to make of marble something which will continue the impression of the trees and waters, wave its jagged outlines like the branches, twist its supple limbs like the fountains. It is high time that some one should stop the laughing...
Page 104 - Yesterday I came to the villa of Careggi, not to cultivate my fields but my soul. Come to us, Marsilio, as soon as possible. Bring with thee our Plato's book De Summo Bono. This, I suppose, you have already translated from the Greek language into Latin as you promised. I desire nothing so much as to know the best road to happiness.
Page 144 - This harmony of soft greys and greens, bound together by shimmering aigrettes and moving chains of silver framed by delicately carved walls and balustrades, shows a deep understanding of the rhythmic charm of rippling water, of light contrasted with shade...