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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 zystus 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 zystus 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 contem- porary 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 contem- porary with Le NĂ´tre formalized to an extravagant degree in the manner of the French Renaissance and obviously exaggerated in ...
Page 275
... fashion of gardening under William and Anne , an attractive stiffness characterizing both arts - and then a succession of fashions which justified the dictum of Sheraton that taste should always be in a state of movement , that ' new ...
... fashion of gardening under William and Anne , an attractive stiffness characterizing both arts - and then a succession of fashions which justified the dictum of Sheraton that taste should always be in a state of movement , that ' new ...
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