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VILLA MADAMA, FARXESIAN GARDESS AXD VILLA PAPA GIVLIO. 
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 
timbers 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. 
