Sometimes the most poignant qualities of a site come not from what is actually there, but from what is connected to it, through time and space, by our recollections and hopes. The Poetics of Gardens It is all too easy to think of gardens as consisting simply of physical stuff — of plants and paths, [...]
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Posted in France outside Paris, Gardens, History, Italy, UK, tagged genius loci, Great Dixter, Lincoln center, memory, photography, Vaux le Vicomte, Villa Madama on February 10, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Villa Madama
Posted in Cemeteries and monuments, Gardens, History, Italy, tagged Annone, Carlo Dentice di Frasso, Countess Dorothy, Henry James, Margaret of Austria, Norah Lindsay, Raphael, Rome gardens, Villa Madama on June 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »
We were recently fortunate to visit the glorious sixteenth century Villa Madama, just north of Rome. Designed by Raphael, it was one of the finest Renaissance villas with its classically simple façade, vast windows and monumental courtyard. Inside are beautiful stuccoes, friezes and painted lacunar ceilings by various Italian masters, including (it is said) Raphael [...]
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