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Title: European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: 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
Subjects: Gardens Gardens
Publisher: Philadelphia, H.T. Coates & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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AN APPROACH AND ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PALACE Rear of Pitti Palace Boboli Gardens site offers the widest opportunity for variety both of schemeand of detail, and for the exercise of good taste and discrimi-nation. No formula can take the place of good taste. V. A few words are now in order as to the location of themost important examples of this art. They are naturally to befound in greatest number in or near Rome, the seat of the lux- 52 European and Japanese Gardens
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ENTRANCE GATE OF THE VILLA ALBANI urious Papal court and aristocracy of the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries. Within the walls, in the northern part of thecity, and adjacent to the Passeggio Pubblico or Pincian gardens,is the Villa Medici, overlooking the walls into the BorgheseVilla, which spreads its vast expanse northwards into the sub-urbs, and commanding westwards a marvelous prospect of thecity and of the glorious dome of St. Peters across the river acouple of miles away. The Villa Torlonia is at the northeastcorner of the city, next the Porta Pia. The Quirinal Hill islargely occupied by the royal palace and gardens, the lattervery extensive and beautiful, but too flat and uniform to cap-tivate the beholder as do some of the other gardens. The cen-tral zone of the city contains no important gardens on the cis-tiberine side except the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele and theBotanical Gardens ; the southern zone boasts the Villa Mattei(now, I believe, the property of an American, the

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