House £s? Garden 
A FRAGMENT VILLA MEDICI 
Almost all the fragments ot the imperial 
villas long ago found their way to galleries, 
or to the adornment of works of the Renais¬ 
sance. So it is not individual detail that in¬ 
terests in places like Hadrian’s Villa, but 
rather the general plan and great magnitude 
of the combined parts. The two illustrations 
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FIELD SEAT VILLA BORGHESE 
give only a few fragments of columns, but 
they show clearly enough how beautiful this 
circular apartment, the so-called Natatorium, 
must have been with its columns, its bridges 
and its water. 
The Villa Borghese, outside the Porta 
del Popolo, is perhaps the best known villa 
VILLA BORGHESE 
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