. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE VILLA GARDEN Plan of Villa Lante At Bagnaia ancient and gloriousestates with suchloveliness of pros-pect and setting. Given the condi-tions which I havetried to sketch, it iseasy to understandthe results that cameabout in the domainof landscape gard-ening. The churchlypatricians who builtthe villas were norecluses, seeking thesolitude of the glensand forests to holdcommunion onlywith themselves andnature. They werethe powerful, proudand wealthy leadersof a society conspic-uou
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE VILLA GARDEN Plan of Villa Lante At Bagnaia ancient and gloriousestates with suchloveliness of pros-pect and setting. Given the condi-tions which I havetried to sketch, it iseasy to understandthe results that cameabout in the domainof landscape gard-ening. The churchlypatricians who builtthe villas were norecluses, seeking thesolitude of the glensand forests to holdcommunion onlywith themselves andnature. They werethe powerful, proudand wealthy leadersof a society conspic-uous for its worldli-ness and love of dis-play. Like true Ital-ians they loved theopen air, but unlikethe lords of Eng-land and France,they had no taste forthe chase, and thenecessities of theirstate precluded theirresorting to distantcastles emboweredin the forests or hid-den in the gorgesof the was to the villathat thev fled for The Italian Formal Garden
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