. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects ... Gardens; Gardens. European and Japanese Gardens. A FOUNTAIN GARDENS OF THE LUXEMBOURG insignificant and scattered elements of preceding practice into a finely realized ensemble which stands up proudly, over- shadowing the earlier time and shedding light over our own.) ' Before his time there had been comparatively little varia- tion in the design of gardens. One work mimicked another, the same effects being reproduced with only slight changes to suit the individual requirements or difficulties of the c
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects ... Gardens; Gardens. European and Japanese Gardens. A FOUNTAIN GARDENS OF THE LUXEMBOURG insignificant and scattered elements of preceding practice into a finely realized ensemble which stands up proudly, over- shadowing the earlier time and shedding light over our own.) ' Before his time there had been comparatively little varia- tion in the design of gardens. One work mimicked another, the same effects being reproduced with only slight changes to suit the individual requirements or difficulties of the client or the situation. No great underlying principles of design were recognized, and no effort had been made to get outside of the work and look at it in a large way, objectively. Errors and imperfections had constantly arisen from miscalculations of foreshortening, the easiest of faults to make, and the most difficult to obviate, except by long and dearly bought experi- ence. A plan or bird's-eye view, as everyone knows, may be charming, and yet the execution prove very disappointing, owing to just this awful dift'erence in the foreshortening. If this is true now, with numberless examples of landscape work from which to argue, on which to base one's judgment, how much greater must have been the difficultv in former Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brown, Glenn, 1854-1932; Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926; Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951; Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931; Honda, Kinkichiro?, 1850-1921. Philadelphia, H. T. Coates & Co.
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