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Page 92
... marble shaded by a vine supported by four small columns of Carystian marble . From the seat water gushes out of tiny pipes as if the weight of the person sitting there had put it in motion . The water is caught in a polished marble ...
... marble shaded by a vine supported by four small columns of Carystian marble . From the seat water gushes out of tiny pipes as if the weight of the person sitting there had put it in motion . The water is caught in a polished marble ...
Page 161
... marble and lead , ranged in regular lines , like soldiers at a procession ; which , to make them more natural , are sometimes painted in proper colours , and finely gilt . The lakes and rivers are confined by quays of hewn stone , and ...
... marble and lead , ranged in regular lines , like soldiers at a procession ; which , to make them more natural , are sometimes painted in proper colours , and finely gilt . The lakes and rivers are confined by quays of hewn stone , and ...
Page 173
... marble vases from which water bubbled and overflowed in a veil around them . In all there were eleven groups , each of them illustrating some motive - Tritons and little Fawns , children fishing and hunting , and little girls holding ...
... marble vases from which water bubbled and overflowed in a veil around them . In all there were eleven groups , each of them illustrating some motive - Tritons and little Fawns , children fishing and hunting , and little girls holding ...
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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