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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16632#0228
The Middle Ages in the West
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FIG. 148. SUBURBAN GARDEN AND SMALL FARMYARD
The name indicates that it was chiefly wide meadow flats traversed by shady avenues,
but it must have also included other places of an ornamental kind, and in 1297 the Floren-
tines decided to add a large artificial lake. Also the Prato della Valle at Padua shows by
its size even now that it must have been a sort of common for the townspeople. Still the
style of the central ornamentation which we see nowadays was only adopted in 1770, for
in that neo-classical period it was made on purpose in the shape of a perfect oval, in
reference to the Colosseum as model. The plantation in the middle, adorned with statues,
199
FIG. 148. SUBURBAN GARDEN AND SMALL FARMYARD
The name indicates that it was chiefly wide meadow flats traversed by shady avenues,
but it must have also included other places of an ornamental kind, and in 1297 the Floren-
tines decided to add a large artificial lake. Also the Prato della Valle at Padua shows by
its size even now that it must have been a sort of common for the townspeople. Still the
style of the central ornamentation which we see nowadays was only adopted in 1770, for
in that neo-classical period it was made on purpose in the shape of a perfect oval, in
reference to the Colosseum as model. The plantation in the middle, adorned with statues,