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History of Garden Art
The villa at Ulrich has a peculiar ground-plan, and the features remind one rather of
a villa suburbana than of a real country house. According to excavations, it is apparent
that the chief entrance to the villa (which stretches from east to west on a flat part of
the hill) is on the eastern side, beside a court that has no colonnade. But one gets the
best view of the place from the northern valley, where there was a long colonnade on the
flat ground, whence there is an enjoyable prospect. The bath-wing is on a terrace lower
down. Outside the court, behind this colonnade, there is a large peristyle which we may
suppose to be a pleasure-garden, and in the house on the mountain side is a pillared
hall. The gardens proper will have extended east and west of peristyle and court. In its
FIG. 94. PLAN OF A VILLA AT RUHLING
whole plan this villa shows some resemblance to the Villa Madama on Monte Mario, near
Rome. An unattached building, probably the villa rustica, has also been found here.
But the most remarkable of the villas in the Moselle district is the one found at
Teting (Fig. 95). It is one of the largest on this side of the Alps, certainly a seat of which
none of the greatest men in Rome need have been ashamed. The imposing facade with its
three wings is towards the south-east, and in a splendid situation. In front is a wide court,
eighty-eight metres in length by sixty metres in depth; and from the house there would
be a full view of its beauty, planted as a fine garden, whose extent it is not possible to
determine. The central building forms a large broad exedra (forty-four metres), a size
which would be imposing even for Italy: on both sides this is flanked by two semicircular
rooms, in the so-called Cyzicene style. The exedra was formed by a pillared hall, in front
of which lay a kind of terrace two and a half metres broad, probably a double colonnade,
and farther back a large room with an apse. It would appear from excavations up to date
that there are only a few rooms behind the exedra, and the living-rooms proper are in the
east wing, which also has a pillared hall extending to the narrow end of this wing. In the
western part are the baths; and quite disconnected to the north, there is a diasta which
History of Garden Art
The villa at Ulrich has a peculiar ground-plan, and the features remind one rather of
a villa suburbana than of a real country house. According to excavations, it is apparent
that the chief entrance to the villa (which stretches from east to west on a flat part of
the hill) is on the eastern side, beside a court that has no colonnade. But one gets the
best view of the place from the northern valley, where there was a long colonnade on the
flat ground, whence there is an enjoyable prospect. The bath-wing is on a terrace lower
down. Outside the court, behind this colonnade, there is a large peristyle which we may
suppose to be a pleasure-garden, and in the house on the mountain side is a pillared
hall. The gardens proper will have extended east and west of peristyle and court. In its
FIG. 94. PLAN OF A VILLA AT RUHLING
whole plan this villa shows some resemblance to the Villa Madama on Monte Mario, near
Rome. An unattached building, probably the villa rustica, has also been found here.
But the most remarkable of the villas in the Moselle district is the one found at
Teting (Fig. 95). It is one of the largest on this side of the Alps, certainly a seat of which
none of the greatest men in Rome need have been ashamed. The imposing facade with its
three wings is towards the south-east, and in a splendid situation. In front is a wide court,
eighty-eight metres in length by sixty metres in depth; and from the house there would
be a full view of its beauty, planted as a fine garden, whose extent it is not possible to
determine. The central building forms a large broad exedra (forty-four metres), a size
which would be imposing even for Italy: on both sides this is flanked by two semicircular
rooms, in the so-called Cyzicene style. The exedra was formed by a pillared hall, in front
of which lay a kind of terrace two and a half metres broad, probably a double colonnade,
and farther back a large room with an apse. It would appear from excavations up to date
that there are only a few rooms behind the exedra, and the living-rooms proper are in the
east wing, which also has a pillared hall extending to the narrow end of this wing. In the
western part are the baths; and quite disconnected to the north, there is a diasta which