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Identifier: europeanjapanese01brow (find matches)
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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European and Japanese Gardens Boboli at Florence, belonging to the Pitti Palace, and theBorghese at Rome. These were terraced to afford an arenaand open-air seating for athletic sports and mummeries in theolden time, and may not always have been covered with grass,but they are very beautiful in their present condition of refresh-ing greenness. IV. The garden, thus treated, was, as I have said, designedunder special conditions and for a particular purpose. It was
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WHERE THE GROUNDS ARE SUFFICIENTLY EXTENSIVE The Boboli Gardens intended first as the decorative setting for the social as well asprivate life of a very rich, worldly and splendor-loving aris-tocracy ; secondly, as an approach and environment for thepalace, villa or casino of the proprietor, with which it must forman artistically congruous whole. It is evident that there couldbe here no question of rivalry with other kinds of gardens. The 47 The Italian Formal Garden vast park, with its drives for horseback riding, its brooks andbridges, its covers tor game, its preserves for deer, all thatwas peculiar and essential to the life of the English or Frenchnobleman, was wholly out of the question here. All the ideasand conceptions of landscape gardening which, inherited fromour English and French ancestors, we have derived from theirideal of the forest park, with its vast expanses of grass, thicketsand trees, trimmed out and smoothed down by the gardenerscare, and extended by art over othe

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