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houses and doorway leading to an avenue of cypresses. In Pinturicchio’s picture of * Susanna and 
the Elders ’ the garden is shown surrounded by a low red wall, and a hedge of roses trained upon 
a lattice of gilded reeds; a roebuck, stag, rabbits, and other animals are running loose in the 
garden—a liberty not, however, allowed to a monkey chained to a stake. The bath into which 
Susanna is about to enter is represented in the form of a magnificent fountain, with octagonal 
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basin raised on two steps. In another of his frescoes is a little garden enclosed by a balustrade, 
with flower beds formally laid out in squares and surrounded by a cane trellis. 
Lorenzo da Credi’s picture of the ‘ Annunciation ’ shows an immense park garden with straight 
walks, and cool thickets, grass parterres, a well-head near an oratory, and masses of imposing trees. 
The designing of gardens was one of the many branches of art to which the painter was called 
upon to devote his attention. In the valuable collection of drawings at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 
are several original sketches. One is a delightful little design for a town garden on an irregularly 
