Folly
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folly-167-18086035
title:
Folly
text:
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings. Eighteenth-century English landscape gardening and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolising classical virtues. Other 18th-century garden follies imitated Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined medieval castles or abbeys, or Tatar tents, t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of building
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly
date created:
2003-01-04T23:31:03Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T16:00:52Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Broadway_tower.jpg","width":1484,"height":968}
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13
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