52 VILLA MADAM A, FARNESIAN GARDENS AND VILLA PAPA GIULIO. 



architectural detail. Grey marble and Cippolino are very well employed in this loggia. In a 

 side garden on the right is a restored Etruscan temple of the greatest interest, showing how the 

 limbers were cased with decorative slabs of terra-cotta, and how the support of the ridge 

 pole was a feature in the pediment. Much yet remains to be done in elucidating these 

 remarkable Etruscan buildings ; the whole system of the highly ornamented plates of terra cotta 

 which they used as a clothing to a timber framework has still to be explained in its origin and 

 development. A. T. B. 



