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Page 58
... fashion a few examples may be given . Ptolomy Philadelphus , in order to add colour and splendour to a banquet , set up a vast tent outside Alexandria , and surrounded it with elaborate garden courts , the porticoes of which were hung ...
... fashion a few examples may be given . Ptolomy Philadelphus , in order to add colour and splendour to a banquet , set up a vast tent outside Alexandria , and surrounded it with elaborate garden courts , the porticoes of which were hung ...
Page 90
... fashion . We are now introduced to three gardens belong- ing to the villa which it is advisable to consider separately in order to avoid confusion . The first is the purely formal gystus arranged in a system of terraces , beginning with ...
... fashion . We are now introduced to three gardens belong- ing to the villa which it is advisable to consider separately in order to avoid confusion . The first is the purely formal gystus arranged in a system of terraces , beginning with ...
Page 94
... fashion of his own period and drawn his plan accordingly . Thus we see a version made by an architect contemporary with Le NĂ´tre formalized to an extravagant degree in the manner of the French Renaissance and obviously exaggerated in ...
... fashion of his own period and drawn his plan accordingly . Thus we see a version made by an architect contemporary with Le NĂ´tre formalized to an extravagant degree in the manner of the French Renaissance and obviously exaggerated in ...
Contents
PARADISE | 30 |
THE YOUNGER PLINY AND THE VILLA | 81 |
THE JEWELLED TREE | 100 |
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