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The Italian Renaissance and Baroque
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between them. The paths, as always in these early parterres, are arched over with foliage;
there is a pavilion where they cross, and in the squares left between them there are simple
rectangular flower-beds. This is the first example of a sunk parterre, so common later on.
They^ liad^ the^ same^
the Pope might retire either alone or with a ~
select circle of friends (Fig. 191, No. 10, and FIG- ^ villa pia' r0m£-the approach to the
. „ . 11 COURT FROM the NYMPHiEUM
rig. 192). Ihere is only one bedroom, which
may mean that he was sometimes able to sleep there alone. A real treasure came to light
when the architect had fulfilled these demands. The casino itself is preserved: there is a
fine front erection with an open loggia, standing like a kind of fountain-shrine at a cistern
^ iiMMM^Mu^Mp........ from masks, and decorated with statues
*j^OgWwHIBMB^^^ and caryatides at the facade (Fig. 193).
-. '">^.^i wash that disfigures the building with its
- - IffljBB ugly coat, there still remain from the beauti-
.. y^.f - "".""V-- 'S ' •s^%-«>'.'^NJ|l ful past age delightful grotesques and
coloured mosaics on the side of the stairs.
fig. 193a. villa pia, rome-the interior of « To thls severely symmetrical building a
the court j
tower is added behind on the left as though
one final note was needed to extend the impression of grace and charm over the
whole place."
The villa was cut out of the woody hill. Its walls were close to the house behind,
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between them. The paths, as always in these early parterres, are arched over with foliage;
there is a pavilion where they cross, and in the squares left between them there are simple
rectangular flower-beds. This is the first example of a sunk parterre, so common later on.
They^ liad^ the^ same^
the Pope might retire either alone or with a ~
select circle of friends (Fig. 191, No. 10, and FIG- ^ villa pia' r0m£-the approach to the
. „ . 11 COURT FROM the NYMPHiEUM
rig. 192). Ihere is only one bedroom, which
may mean that he was sometimes able to sleep there alone. A real treasure came to light
when the architect had fulfilled these demands. The casino itself is preserved: there is a
fine front erection with an open loggia, standing like a kind of fountain-shrine at a cistern
^ iiMMM^Mu^Mp........ from masks, and decorated with statues
*j^OgWwHIBMB^^^ and caryatides at the facade (Fig. 193).
-. '">^.^i wash that disfigures the building with its
- - IffljBB ugly coat, there still remain from the beauti-
.. y^.f - "".""V-- 'S ' •s^%-«>'.'^NJ|l ful past age delightful grotesques and
coloured mosaics on the side of the stairs.
fig. 193a. villa pia, rome-the interior of « To thls severely symmetrical building a
the court j
tower is added behind on the left as though
one final note was needed to extend the impression of grace and charm over the
whole place."
The villa was cut out of the woody hill. Its walls were close to the house behind,