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Pinciana and cypress-lined avenues centered on each of the facades of the main villa, laid out through open fields, the main approaches to both the villa and the
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Inventories of Villa
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372:Die antiken Bildwerke der Villa Ludovisi
312:Die antiken Bildwerke der Villa Ludovisi
264:Marburger Jahrbuch fĂĽr Kunstwissenschaft
123:family, which in 1872 rented it to King
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33:Gardens of Sallust (
16:Villa in Rome, Italy
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