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THE GARDENS OF ITALY.
interior must have presented
a gay scene. There were
twenty-four horses in each
stable planned on either side
of the centre portico.
The vista does not stop
abruptly with the stables, but
passes through an enclosure
to a small casino beyond.
This is a characteristic of the
lay-out, which by gateways
and clairevoyees seems to
desire to eliminate all boun-
daries. The French School
of Versailles was the model
in view ; there are designs
in fresco on the walls of one
of the rooms upstairs showing
in the first scheme—which
360.—ELEVATION OF THE VILLA OF MALCONTENTA, FACING THE
BRENTA, BETWEEN PADUA AND VENICE.
Andrea Palladio, Architect, 1558, for Nicolo e Luigi Foscari. Nicolaus et Aloysius
Foscari fratres Frederici filii. From O. B. Scamozzi.
relation to the older Italian school of a hotel to a house. The
was not carried out—an even
closer following of that
original. This style of
gardening is apt to bear the
avenue on the right, running
parallel to the main axis, passes a maze, with a centre circular tower, having a stairway wreathed
round it, and then runs through a unique hexagonal domed archway. This may be regarded as a
free development of a triumphal arch, though by its present position it seems to be devised
merely to reconcile the divergent
angles of two ranges of subsidiary
buildings. It may have been
designed simply as a pavilion djour,
similar to those used in theatrical
scenery. The avenue ends in a
square enclosure, planned diagonally
to the approach, and entered at one
angle. Surrounded by clipped
hedges and set with grass plots,
statues and pedestals for vases, this
retreat was calculated for the advan-
tageous display of plants when
brought out after being housed for
the winter in the columned
porticoes of wood, planned on two
sides of the enclosure. In the
window frames of these lemonaia
some lead glazing of the old Venetian
pattern still remains.
The Palace inside is like many
another. It is very well planned,
with wide corridors, and the central
position of the great ballroom must
have been splendid for receptions.
361.—PLAN OF THE VILLA OF MALCONTENTA.
Andrea Palladio, Architect. From 0. B. Scamozzi.
Napoleon I bought the Palace in
1807 for Eugene Beauharnais,
THE GARDENS OF ITALY.
interior must have presented
a gay scene. There were
twenty-four horses in each
stable planned on either side
of the centre portico.
The vista does not stop
abruptly with the stables, but
passes through an enclosure
to a small casino beyond.
This is a characteristic of the
lay-out, which by gateways
and clairevoyees seems to
desire to eliminate all boun-
daries. The French School
of Versailles was the model
in view ; there are designs
in fresco on the walls of one
of the rooms upstairs showing
in the first scheme—which
360.—ELEVATION OF THE VILLA OF MALCONTENTA, FACING THE
BRENTA, BETWEEN PADUA AND VENICE.
Andrea Palladio, Architect, 1558, for Nicolo e Luigi Foscari. Nicolaus et Aloysius
Foscari fratres Frederici filii. From O. B. Scamozzi.
relation to the older Italian school of a hotel to a house. The
was not carried out—an even
closer following of that
original. This style of
gardening is apt to bear the
avenue on the right, running
parallel to the main axis, passes a maze, with a centre circular tower, having a stairway wreathed
round it, and then runs through a unique hexagonal domed archway. This may be regarded as a
free development of a triumphal arch, though by its present position it seems to be devised
merely to reconcile the divergent
angles of two ranges of subsidiary
buildings. It may have been
designed simply as a pavilion djour,
similar to those used in theatrical
scenery. The avenue ends in a
square enclosure, planned diagonally
to the approach, and entered at one
angle. Surrounded by clipped
hedges and set with grass plots,
statues and pedestals for vases, this
retreat was calculated for the advan-
tageous display of plants when
brought out after being housed for
the winter in the columned
porticoes of wood, planned on two
sides of the enclosure. In the
window frames of these lemonaia
some lead glazing of the old Venetian
pattern still remains.
The Palace inside is like many
another. It is very well planned,
with wide corridors, and the central
position of the great ballroom must
have been splendid for receptions.
361.—PLAN OF THE VILLA OF MALCONTENTA.
Andrea Palladio, Architect. From 0. B. Scamozzi.
Napoleon I bought the Palace in
1807 for Eugene Beauharnais,