Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . them extremely, is, the great number of antique fta-tues and baffo-relievos, with the addition of fountains, whichare either in the court, or in the view of it. The apartmentswithin are noble, and the rooms well proportiond : ftate and-grandeur they feem chiefly to aim at, to which they are con-tent that convenience fhall fometimes give way. In the greateftpalaces, the fait a of rooms one within another, with the viftothro the marble door-cafes, is very magnificent. As manyof them are pri
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . them extremely, is, the great number of antique fta-tues and baffo-relievos, with the addition of fountains, whichare either in the court, or in the view of it. The apartmentswithin are noble, and the rooms well proportiond : ftate and-grandeur they feem chiefly to aim at, to which they are con-tent that convenience fhall fometimes give way. In the greateftpalaces, the fait a of rooms one within another, with the viftothro the marble door-cafes, is very magnificent. As manyof them are princes, fo they diftribute their apartments accor-dingly ; into anti-chambers for waiting* chambers of , (for they affeft the higheft names) with bnldachinos, orcanopies of ftate ; and thefe lead to the private apartment ofthe prince himfelf, i. e. one for form fake on the ftate-floor;for their ufual abode is either at the top or the bottom of the*houfe; the former being their winter, the latter their fummer-apartment. have an oppearancepeculiarly a roofing to us3, 197 i98 R O ME,. <m, who are usd to fee little of that nature in England. Theyhave generally archd roofs, painted in frefco, and adornd withftatues and fountains : they are moitly what we call under-,ground, which makes them very cool and refrefhing in the hotweather, and their way of adorning and furnifhtng them givesthem a very cool look too. The windows of their palaceshave not fames, to Hide up or down, .but all the parts ofthem are made to open, by way of , from bottomto top : neither do they ufe wainfcot, their rooms being gene-rally either painted in frefco, or plain plaifter-walls coverdover with pictures, or hung with tapeftry, velvet, or damafk,as in England and other places. But what looks the molt odd-ly to a ftranger, is, to fee a room hung perhaps with velvet orthe richeft arras, a velvet bed perfectly embofsd with high-raisd o-old-embroidery, the chairs, cabinets, glafie
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