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dePaor, Picture Palace, Galway, Ireland, 2014 (via hofheinz)
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Proposal for the Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands, c. 1900 (via archimaps)
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Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad, Iraq, c. 710 BCE / 1905 (via archimaps)
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Luigi Vanvitelli, Plan of the Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy, 1752-74 (via archiveofaffinities)
God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely – as if gardening were the greater perfection.
Francis Bacon, Of Gardens, 1625
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Ximenes of Aragon, Castle of Sammezzano, Florence, Italy, 1605-1889 (via palmerston)
We have let houses that our fathers built fall into pieces, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew.
Carl Jung, "On Society," c. 1940
I was born of the mountain, he reared me, and Enlil made me keeper of this forest. Let me go free, Gilgamesh, and I will be your servant, you shall be my lord; all the trees of the forest that I tended on the mountain shall be yours. I will cut them down and build you a palace.
Humbaba in N.K. Sandars vs. Anonymous Akkadians, The Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 2500 / 2100 BCE
Ivan Aivazovsky, View of the Big Cascade at the Great Palace of Petergof, 1837