Italian Villas And Their Gardens
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In Lombardy the natural conditions were so similar that the French geometrical gardens did not seem out of place ; yet even here a difference is felt, both in the architecture and the gardens. Italy, in spite of Palladio and the Palladian tradition, never freed herself from the baroque. Her artistic tendencies were all toward free- 219 ITALIAN VILLAS dom, improvisation, individual expression, while France was fundamentally classical and instinctively temperate.
Just as the French cabinet-makers... and bronze-chisellers and modellers in stucco produced more delicate and fin- ished, but less personal, work than the Italian crg.ftsmen, so the French architects designed with greater precision and restraint, and less play of personal invention. To estabUsh a rough distinction, it might be said tliat French art has always been intellectual and Italjan art emotional; and this distinction is felt even in the treatment of the pleasure-house and its garden. In Italy the architectural detail remained baroque till the end of the eighteenth century, and the architect permitted himself far greater license in the choice of forms and the combination of materials.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In Lombardy the natural conditions were so similar that the French geometrical gardens did not seem out of place ; yet even here a difference is felt, both in the architecture and the gardens. Italy, in spite of Palladio and the Palladian tradition, never freed herself from the baroque. Her artistic tendencies were all toward free- 219 ITALIAN VILLAS dom, improvisation, individual expression, while France was fundamentally classical and instinctively temperate.
Just as the French cabinet-makers... and bronze-chisellers and modellers in stucco produced more delicate and fin- ished, but less personal, work than the Italian crg.ftsmen, so the French architects designed with greater precision and restraint, and less play of personal invention. To estabUsh a rough distinction, it might be said tliat French art has always been intellectual and Italjan art emotional; and this distinction is felt even in the treatment of the pleasure-house and its garden. In Italy the architectural detail remained baroque till the end of the eighteenth century, and the architect permitted himself far greater license in the choice of forms and the combination of materials.
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