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... architectural ornament and formal design . A feature that also contributed to conventional treatment was the necessity ... architecture throughout was rigidly rectangular , relieved by symbolism in pillars and capitals that con- trasted ...
... architectural ornament and formal design . A feature that also contributed to conventional treatment was the necessity ... architecture throughout was rigidly rectangular , relieved by symbolism in pillars and capitals that con- trasted ...
Page 127
... architecture was utilized and developed to meet the necessities of the new establishment , and the variety in the types of architecture of the most ancient of all the monasteries points to the material with which the work had to be ...
... architecture was utilized and developed to meet the necessities of the new establishment , and the variety in the types of architecture of the most ancient of all the monasteries points to the material with which the work had to be ...
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... architecture has been to a large extent an expression of the national instinct for the more natural phase of architecture derived from the effects of scenery - for flowers and the simpler forms of beauty . At the same time it is impos ...
... architecture has been to a large extent an expression of the national instinct for the more natural phase of architecture derived from the effects of scenery - for flowers and the simpler forms of beauty . At the same time it is impos ...
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amongst ancient appeared architecture arrangement artificial artistic avenues beauty became beds birds built canals Capability Brown centre century charm Chinese Chinese gardens cloister colour court cultivation Cut-work cypress decorative delight Dutch effect Egypt England English gardening fact fashion flowering plants flowers fountain French fruit grass Greece Greek green grotto ground groves Hampton Court hedges Helen Allingham herbs hills history of gardening horticulture idea Italian Italy land landscape later lawns lines manner marble medieval ment modern motive nature never ornament painting palace paradise park parterres period Persia Persian garden phase picture plants pleasure Pliny Pope Reginald Blomfield religious Renaissance Roman Rome roses scene scheme scientific seats shade side space spirit style surroundings symbolism taste temple terraces tion topiary tradition trees Tudor period variety VAUX-LE-VICOMTE Versailles villas violets walks walls wild Younger Pliny