Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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... delightful frescoes ; these were also removed to Portici , where a museum for the finds was made . Then a magnificent villa came to light , with a great pillared peristyle , loggias and verandahs , a bathing pool , a set of fine bronze ...
... delightful frescoes ; these were also removed to Portici , where a museum for the finds was made . Then a magnificent villa came to light , with a great pillared peristyle , loggias and verandahs , a bathing pool , a set of fine bronze ...
Pagina 291
... delightful revenant cities , which it became increasingly the fashion to include in one's European tour . Goethe and Tischbein were there in 1787. Goethe found the Pompeiian houses too small - more like dolls ' houses than real ...
... delightful revenant cities , which it became increasingly the fashion to include in one's European tour . Goethe and Tischbein were there in 1787. Goethe found the Pompeiian houses too small - more like dolls ' houses than real ...
Pagina 422
... delightful idyll of Antium " has become some- thing of a mess ; but these ruins too will put on beauty with time . One of the more dubious of ruined palaces is the palace that Trajan is said by some archaeologists to have built on the ...
... delightful idyll of Antium " has become some- thing of a mess ; but these ruins too will put on beauty with time . One of the more dubious of ruined palaces is the palace that Trajan is said by some archaeologists to have built on the ...
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GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
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